About the Authors

Kaivon Assani

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Mia F. Tazi

Affiliation Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity and the Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Amal O. Amer

Affiliation Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity and the Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Benjamin T. Kopp

Benjamin.Kopp@NationwideChildrens.org

Affiliations Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Section of Pediatric Pulmonology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA AOA BTK. Performed the experiments: KA MFT BTK. Analyzed the data: KA MFT AOA BTK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AOA BTK. Wrote the paper: KA BTK.