About the Authors

Walter R. Weiss

walter.weiss@verizon.net

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Chengyong George Jiang

Current address: Booz Allen Hamilton, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WRW CGJ. Performed the experiments: WRW CGJ. Analyzed the data: WRW CGJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WRW CGJ. Wrote the paper: WRW.