About the Authors

Madhulika Jupelli

Current address: Division of Infectious Diseases, The Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kenichi Shimada

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Norika Chiba

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Anatoly Slepenkin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Randa Alsabeh

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Heather D. Jones

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ellena Peterson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Shuang Chen

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Moshe Arditi

Contributed equally to this work with: Moshe Arditi, Timothy R. Crother

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Timothy R. Crother

Contributed equally to this work with: Moshe Arditi, Timothy R. Crother

timothy.crother@cshs.org

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJ KS MA TRC. Performed the experiments: MJ TRC NC AS EP. Analyzed the data: MJ KS RA SC MA TRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RA EP MA. Wrote the paper: MJ KS SC HDJ MA TRC.