About the Authors

Yang O. Zhao

yang.zhao@yale.edu (YOZ); erol.fikrig@yale.edu (EF)

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Sebastian Kurscheid

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Yue Zhang

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Lei Liu

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Lili Zhang

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kelsey Loeliger

Current address: MD/PhD Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Erol Fikrig

yang.zhao@yale.edu (YOZ); erol.fikrig@yale.edu (EF)

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YOZ EF. Performed the experiments: YOZ YZ LL LZ KL. Analyzed the data: YOZ SK EF. Wrote the paper: YOZ SK EF.