About the Authors

Ludmila Matos Baltazar

Contributed equally to this work with: Ludmila Matos Baltazar, Aimee E. Krausz

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Aimee E. Krausz

Contributed equally to this work with: Ludmila Matos Baltazar, Aimee E. Krausz

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ana Camila Oliveira Souza

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Brandon L. Adler

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Angelo Landriscina

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Tagai Musaev

Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Joshua D. Nosanchuk

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Adam J. Friedman

adfriedm@montefiore.org

Affiliations Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LMB AEK JDN AJF. Performed the experiments: LMB AEK ACOS AL TM. Analyzed the data: LMB AEK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ACOS BLA. Wrote the paper: LMB AEK JDN AJF.