About the Authors

Jennifer K. Mulligan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

konopa@musc.edu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Whitney N. Pasquini

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

William W. Carroll

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Tucker Williamson

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Nicholas Reaves

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Kunal J. Patel

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Lee Patterson Allen Transplant Immunobiology Laboratory, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Elliott Mappus

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Rodney J. Schlosser

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Carl Atkinson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Lee Patterson Allen Transplant Immunobiology Laboratory, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.