About the Authors
- Jianping Li
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jianping Li, Zeinab H. Helal
Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America
- Zeinab H. Helal
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jianping Li, Zeinab H. Helal
Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
- Christopher P. Karch
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation The Institute of Material Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America
- Neha Mishra
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Roles Visualization
Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America
- Theodore Girshick
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Roles Formal analysis, Supervision
Affiliation Charles River Laboratories, Avian vaccine services, North Franklin, CT, United States of America
- Antonio Garmendia
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Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America
- Peter Burkhard
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations The Institute of Material Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America, Alpha-O-Peptides AG, Riehen, Switzerland
- Mazhar I. Khan
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: mazhar.khan@uconn.edu
Affiliation Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: PB has an interest in the company Alpha-O Peptides that has patents or patents pending (EP 04711429.3, P. Burkhard; EP 09717471.8, P. Burkhard; EP14150600.6, S.K. Raman, et al.) on the technology. The Charles River Laboratories Avian Vaccine Services, provided support in the form of salaries for authors (T.G). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors declare no competing interests.