About the Authors

Nicole V. Acuff

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, 501 DW Brooks Drive, Athens, GA, United States of America

Xin Li

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, 501 DW Brooks Drive, Athens, GA, United States of America

Rebecca Kirkland

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, 501 DW Brooks Drive, Athens, GA, United States of America

Tamas Nagy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

Wendy T. Watford

watfordw@uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, 501 DW Brooks Drive, Athens, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NVA WTW. Performed the experiments: NVA XL RK TN WTW. Analyzed the data: NVA XL WTW. Wrote the paper: NVA XL RK TN WTW.