About the Authors

Takashi Sonobe

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America

Bruno Chenuel

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America

Timothy K. Cooper

Affiliations Department of Comparative Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America

Philippe Haouzi

phaouzi@hmc.psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PH. Performed the experiments: TS BS TKC. Analyzed the data: PH TS BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PH TS BS. Wrote the paper: PH TS BS.