About the Authors

Benjamin A. Turturice

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin A. Turturice, Halvor S. McGee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Halvor S. McGee

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin A. Turturice, Halvor S. McGee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Brian Oliver

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliations Respiratory Cellular and Molecular Biology, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Molecular Biosciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Melissa Baraket

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliations South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Liverpool, NSW, Australia, Department of Respiratory Medicine and Sleep Medicine and Ingham Institute Applied Medical Research, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW, Australia

Brian T. Nguyen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Christian Ascoli

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Ravi Ranjan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Asha Rani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

David L. Perkins

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Patricia W. Finn

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pwfinn@uic.edu

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.