About the Authors

Fazal Shirazi

Contributed equally to this work with: Fazal Shirazi, Dimitrios Farmakiotis

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Dimitrios Farmakiotis

Contributed equally to this work with: Fazal Shirazi, Dimitrios Farmakiotis

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Yuanqing Yan

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Nathaniel Albert

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Do Kim-Anh

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis

dkontoyi@mdanderson.org

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

DPK has received research support and honoraria from Pfizer, Astellas Pharma US, and Merck and Co., Inc. FS, DF, YW, NA, and KAD have no conflicts. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FS DF NA KD DPK. Performed the experiments: FS DF NA. Analyzed the data: FS DF YY NA KD DPK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DPK. Wrote the paper: FS DF YY NA KD DPK.