About the Authors

Sankaralingam Saikolappan

Affiliation Regional Academic Health Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Edinburg, Texas, United States of America

Jaymie Estrella

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Smitha J. Sasindran

Affiliation Regional Academic Health Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Edinburg, Texas, United States of America

Arshad Khan

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lisa Y. Armitige

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Chinnaswamy Jagannath

dhandayutha@uthscsa.edu (SD); Chinnaswamy.Jagannath@uth.tmc.edu (CJ)

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Subramanian Dhandayuthapani

dhandayutha@uthscsa.edu (SD); Chinnaswamy.Jagannath@uth.tmc.edu (CJ)

Affiliation Regional Academic Health Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Edinburg, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD CJ. Performed the experiments: SS JE SJS AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LYA. Wrote the paper: SD CJ.