About the Authors

Mithun Khattar

Contributed equally to this work with: Mithun Khattar, Caitlin E. Baum

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States of America

Caitlin E. Baum

Contributed equally to this work with: Mithun Khattar, Caitlin E. Baum

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States of America

Paul Schroder

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Joshua D. Breidenbach

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States of America

Steven T. Haller

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States of America

Wenhao Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States of America

Stanislaw Stepkowski

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

Stanislaw.Stepkowski@utoledo.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.