About the Authors

Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Prakash Nagarkatti

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Mitzi Nagarkatti

Mitzi.Nagarkatti@uscmed.sc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MN PN. Data curation: KNC. Formal analysis: KNC. Funding acquisition: MN PN. Investigation: KNC. Methodology: KNC. Project administration: MN PN. Resources: MN PN. Software: KNC. Supervision: MN PN. Validation: KNC MN PN. Visualization: KNC. Writing – original draft: KNC. Writing – review & editing: MN PN.