About the Authors

Donald W. Lawrence

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Laurie P. Shornick

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliations Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jacki Kornbluth

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

jacki.kornbluth@health.slu.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Saint Louis Health Care System, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.