About the Authors

Holly Hartman

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yuge Wang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Harry W. Schroeder Jr

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Xiangqin Cui

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

xiangqin.cui@emory.edu

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.