About the Authors

Chad Steele

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: chad.steele@chp.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rekha R Rapaka

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Allison Metz

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shannon M Pop

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David L Williams

Affiliation Department of Surgery, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America

Siamon Gordon

Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Jay K Kolls

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gordon D Brown

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

CS, RRR, AM, and SMP performed the experiments. CS, SMP, and GDB analyzed the data. CS, RRR, DLW, SG, JKK, and GDB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. CS conceived and designed the experiments, and wrote the paper.