About the Authors

Joonhee Cho

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Lina Kim

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zhaoxia Li

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Noel R. Rose

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The W. Harvey Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Monica Vladut Talor

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Dolores B. Njoku

dnjoku@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DN NR. Performed the experiments: DN JC LK ZL MT. Analyzed the data: DN JC LK ZL MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DN NR. Wrote the paper: DN.