About the Authors

Gary D. Bren

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Sergey A. Trushin

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Program in Translational Immunovirology and Biodefense, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Joe Whitman

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Brett Shepard

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Andrew D. Badley

badley.andrew@mayo.edu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Program in Translational Immunovirology and Biodefense, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GDB ADB. Performed the experiments: SAT JW BDS. Analyzed the data: GDB ADB. Wrote the paper: GDB ADB.