About the Authors

Yaíma L. Lightfoot

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaíma L. Lightfoot, Tao Yang

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Tao Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yaíma L. Lightfoot, Tao Yang

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Bikash Sahay

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mojgan Zadeh

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Sam X. Cheng

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Gary P. Wang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jennifer L. Owen

Affiliation Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mansour Mohamadzadeh

m.zadeh@ufl.edu

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YLL TY SXC GPW JLO MM. Performed the experiments: YLL TY BS MZ JLO. Analyzed the data: YLL TY BS MZ SXC GPW JLO MM. Wrote the paper: YLL TY SXC GPW JLO MM.