About the Authors

Neal Irfan

Affiliation Hamilton Health Sciences. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Annie Brooks

Affiliations Hamilton Health Sciences. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Siraj Mithoowani

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Steve J. Celetti

Affiliation Faculty of Pharmacy University of Waterloo, 10 Victoria St S, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Cheryl Main

Affiliations Hamilton Health Sciences. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, HSC-2N20A Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Dominik Mertz

mertzd@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations Hamilton Health Sciences. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, HSC-2N20A Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Health Sciences Centre, 3W10, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Diseases Research (IIDR), MDCL building, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB DM. Performed the experiments: SM SJC. Analyzed the data: NI SM AB DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM NI AB DM. Wrote the paper: NI AB SM SJC CM DM.