About the Authors

Kavitha Yaddanapudi

Contributed equally to this work with: Kavitha Yaddanapudi, Joari De Miranda

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Joari De Miranda

Contributed equally to this work with: Kavitha Yaddanapudi, Joari De Miranda

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Mady Hornig

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

W. Ian Lipkin

wil2001@columbia.edu

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KY WIL MH JDM. Performed the experiments: KY JDM. Analyzed the data: WIL KY JDM MH. Wrote the paper: KY WIL MH.