About the Authors

Venkatesh L. Hegde

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Prakash S. Nagarkatti

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Mitzi Nagarkatti

mnagark@uscmed.sc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN PSN VLH. Performed the experiments: VLH. Analyzed the data: VLH MN PSN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN PSN. Wrote the paper: VLH MN PSN.