About the Authors

Justine M. Pompey

Contributed equally to this work with: Justine M. Pompey, Bardees Foda

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Bardees Foda

Contributed equally to this work with: Justine M. Pompey, Bardees Foda

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Molecular Genetics and Enzymology Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Egypt

Upinder Singh

usingh@stanford.edu

Current address: Upinder Singh, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMP BF US. Performed the experiments: JMP BF. Analyzed the data: JMP BF US. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMP BF. Wrote the paper: JMP BF US.