About the Authors

Xinxia Peng

xinxiap@uw.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shuying S. Li

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Peter B. Gilbert

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Daniel E. Geraghty

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael G. Katze

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XP DEG MGK. Performed the experiments: XP. Analyzed the data: XP. Wrote the paper: XP SSL PBG DEG MGK.