About the Authors

Julianne L. Baron

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Special Pathogens Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Amit Vikram

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Scott Duda

Affiliation Special Pathogens Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Janet E. Stout

Affiliations Special Pathogens Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Kyle Bibby

BibbyKJ@pitt.edu

Affiliations Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLB JES KB. Performed the experiments: JLB AV SD. Analyzed the data: JLB JES KB. Wrote the paper: JLB KB.