About the Authors

Dina A. Moustafa

Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Neeta Jain

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Nammalwar Sriranganathan

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Ramesh Vemulapalli

rvemulap@purdue.edu

Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM RV. Performed the experiments: DM NJ NS. Analyzed the data: DM NJ NS RV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM NS RV. Wrote the paper: DM RV.