About the Authors

Karlie Jones

Contributed equally to this work with: Karlie Jones, Angela Ballesteros

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Angela Ballesteros

Contributed equally to this work with: Karlie Jones, Angela Ballesteros

Affiliation National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Margaret Mentink-Kane

Affiliation Department of Pathology, USUHS, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, United States of America

James Warren

Affiliation Department of Pathology, USUHS, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, United States of America

Shemona Rattila

Affiliation Department of Pathology, USUHS, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, United States of America

Harry Malech

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Elizabeth Kang

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Gabriela Dveksler

gabriela.dveksler@usuhs.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, USUHS, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KJ AB HM EK GD. Performed the experiments: KJ AB JW SR MM. Analyzed the data: KJ AB EK GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EK GD. Wrote the paper: KJ AB HM GD.