About the Authors

Georgios Sotiriadis

Affiliation Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom

Eswari Dodagatta-Marri

Affiliation Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom

Lubna Kouser

Affiliation Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom

Fatimah S. Alhamlan

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Uday Kishore

Affiliation Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom

Emmanouil Karteris

Emmanouil.karteris@brunel.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Infection, Immunity and Disease Mechanisms, College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom, Institute of Environment, Heath and Societies, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS UK EK. Performed the experiments: GS EDM LK FSA. Analyzed the data: GS UK EK. Wrote the paper: GS UK EK.