About the Authors

Sundararajan Jayaraman

anue2468@uic.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Akshay Patel

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Arathi Jayaraman

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Vasu Patel

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mark Holterman

Current address: Department of Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Bellur Prabhakar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critically read the manuscript: MH BP. Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ. Performed the experiments: SJ AP AJ. Analyzed the data: SJ AJ VP. Wrote the paper: SJ.