About the Authors

Wondimagegnehu M. Teferi

Contributed equally to this work with: Wondimagegnehu M. Teferi, Megan A. Desaulniers

Current address: Department of Medicine, Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Megan A. Desaulniers

Contributed equally to this work with: Wondimagegnehu M. Teferi, Megan A. Desaulniers

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ryan S. Noyce

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Mira Shenouda

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Brittany Umer

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

David H. Evans

devans@ualberta.ca

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: WMT RSN DHE. Formal analysis: WMT MAD RSN MS BU DHE. Funding acquisition: DHE. Investigation: WMT MAD RSN MS BU. Methodology: WMT MAD RSN. Project administration: RSN. Supervision: RSN DHE. Validation: RSN DHE. Visualization: WMT MAD RSN MS BU. Writing – original draft: WMT RSN DHE. Writing – review & editing: WMT MAD RSN DHE.