About the Authors

Hangeun Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Keith Meyer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Adrian M. Di Bisceglie

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ranjit Ray

rayr@slu.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK RR. Performed the experiments: HK KM. Analyzed the data: HK AMD KM RR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK AMD KM RR. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: HK KM RR.