About the Authors

Benjamin Bruno Policicchio

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Bruno Policicchio, Paola Sette

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Paola Sette

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Bruno Policicchio, Paola Sette

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cuiling Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

George Haret-Richter

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tammy Dunsmore

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ivona Pandrea

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ruy M. Ribeiro

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Laboratorio de Biomatemática, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisbo, Lisboa, Portugal

Cristian Apetrei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

apetreic@pitt.edu

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.