About the Authors

Xiaojian Zhang

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

Affiliations Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Matthew H. Thomas

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Florida Research and Innovation Center, Cleveland Clinic, Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Amanda Lynch

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Florida Research and Innovation Center, Cleveland Clinic, Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Hua Shi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Ted M. Ross

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

rosst7@ccf.org

Affiliations Center for Vaccines and Immunology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Florida Research and Innovation Center, Cleveland Clinic, Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States of America, Department Microbial Sciences in Health, Lehner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.