About the Authors

Richard K. Jordan

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard K. Jordan, Shivam S. Shah, Harsh Desai, Jennifer Tripi

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

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

Shivam S. Shah

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard K. Jordan, Shivam S. Shah, Harsh Desai, Jennifer Tripi

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

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

Harsh Desai

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard K. Jordan, Shivam S. Shah, Harsh Desai, Jennifer Tripi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Jennifer Tripi

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard K. Jordan, Shivam S. Shah, Harsh Desai, Jennifer Tripi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Anthony Mitchell

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Randall G. Worth

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

randall.worth@utoledo.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.