About the Authors

Donald T. Weed

dweed@med.miami.edu (DW); pserafini@med.miami.edu (PS)

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Gail Walker

Affiliations Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Adriana C. De La Fuente

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Ronen Nazarian

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Jennifer L. Vella

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Carmen R. Gomez-Fernandez

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Paolo Serafini

dweed@med.miami.edu (DW); pserafini@med.miami.edu (PS)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DTW PS. Performed the experiments: ACD RN JLV CRG PS. Analyzed the data: GW PS. Wrote the paper: DTW PS GW.