About the Authors

Greg Wells

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Samantha Palethorpe

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Everett C. Pesci

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

pescie@ecu.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.