About the Authors

Paria Mirmonsef

Paria_Mirmonsef@rush.edu

Affiliation Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Anna L. Hotton

Affiliation The CORE Center, Cook County Health & Hospital System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Douglas Gilbert

Affiliation Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Derick Burgad

Affiliation Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alan Landay

Affiliation Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kathleen M. Weber

Affiliation The CORE Center, Cook County Health & Hospital System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Mardge Cohen

Affiliation The CORE Center, Cook County Health & Hospital System, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jacques Ravel

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gregory T. Spear

Affiliation Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PM GTS. Performed the experiments: DG DB JR. Analyzed the data: PM ALH KMW JR AL GTS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KMW MC JR. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: PM ALH KMW JR GTS.