About the Authors

Ali Reza Khosravi

khosravi@ut.ac.ir (ARK); david.erle@ucsf.edu (DJE)

Affiliation Mycology Research Center, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

David J. Erle

khosravi@ut.ac.ir (ARK); david.erle@ucsf.edu (DJE)

Affiliation Lung Biology Center, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARK DJE. Performed the experiments: ARK DJE. Analyzed the data: ARK DJE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJE ARK. Wrote the paper: ARK DJE.