About the Authors

Maria L. Alcaide

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria L. Alcaide, Natasa Strbo

malcaide@med.miami.edu

‡ Equal first author contribution.

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America

Natasa Strbo

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria L. Alcaide, Natasa Strbo

‡ Equal first author contribution.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America

Laura Romero

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America

Deborah L. Jones

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America

Violeta J. Rodriguez

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America

Kristopher Arheart

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America

Octavio Martinez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America, Hector Bolivar, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America

Hector Bolivar

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America

Eckhard R. Podack

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America

Margaret A. Fischl

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, 33136, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA NS DJ MF EP. Performed the experiments: NS LR OM EP. Analyzed the data: MA VR KA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA NS MF HB. Wrote the paper: MA NS DJ MF.