About the Authors

Darius Seidler

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States of America

Mary Griffin

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States of America

Amanda Nymon

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States of America

Katja Koeppen

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, United States of America

Alix Ashare

alix.ashare@dartmouth.edu

Affiliations Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States of America, Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DS AA. Formal analysis: KK. Funding acquisition: AA. Investigation: DS MG AN AA. Methodology: DS AN KK AA. Project administration: MG. Resources: MG AN AA. Supervision: AA. Validation: KK AA. Visualization: DS KK AA. Writing – original draft: DS AA. Writing – review & editing: DS MG AN KK AA.