About the Authors

Robin R. Craven

Affiliation Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Xi Gao

Affiliation Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Irving C. Allen

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Denis Gris

Affiliation Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Erin McElvania-TeKippe

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jenny P. Ting

Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Joseph A. Duncan

jaduncan@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine-Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RRC JPYT JAD. Performed the experiments: RRC XG ICA DG EMT JAD. Analyzed the data: RRC XG DG EMT JPYT JAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ICA JBW JPYT JAD. Wrote the paper: JAD. Edited manuscript: RRC ICA DG JBW JT.