About the Authors

Courtney L. Davis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

courtney.davis2@pepperdine.edu

Affiliation Natural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, United States of America

Rezwanul Wahid

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Franklin R. Toapanta

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Jakub K. Simon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Merck & Co. Inc. Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

Marcelo B. Sztein

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

JKS is currently employed by Merck & Co., Inc. The work presented was done while JKS was at the University of Maryland, and employment by Merck & Co. Inc. or any other company does not pose a competing interest or alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.