About the Authors

Saima M. Sidik

Contributed equally to this work with: Saima M. Sidik, Jayme Salsman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Jayme Salsman

Contributed equally to this work with: Saima M. Sidik, Jayme Salsman

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Graham Dellaire

Affiliations Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada, Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute, Halifax, NS, Canada

John R. Rohde

John.Rohde@Dal.Ca

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS JS GD JRR. Performed the experiments: SS JS JRR. Analyzed the data: SS JS JRR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS JS GD JRR. Wrote the paper: SS JS JRR.