About the Authors

Sergei M. Danilov

danilov@uic.edu

Affiliations Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michael S. Wade

Affiliation Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Sylva L. Schwager

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Division of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Ross G. Douglas

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Division of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Andrew B. Nesterovitch

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Isolda A. Popova

Affiliation Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Kyle D. Hogarth

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Nakul Bhardwaj

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

David E. Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Edward D. Sturrock

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Division of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Joe G. N. Garcia

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMD EDS. Performed the experiments: SMD MSW ABN SLS RGD IAP. Analyzed the data: SMD EDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KDH NB DES. Wrote the paper: SMD EDS JGNG.