About the Authors

S. M. Touhidul Islam

Contributed equally to this work with: S. M. Touhidul Islam, Arun P. Palanisamy

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Arun P. Palanisamy

Contributed equally to this work with: S. M. Touhidul Islam, Arun P. Palanisamy

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

arun.palanisamy@cwru.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

Gabriel R. Chedister

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Michael G. Schmidt

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

David N. B. Lewin

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Kenneth D. Chavin

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.