About the Authors

Kamna Aggarwal

Affiliation Divison of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Florentina Rus

Affiliation Divison of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christie Vriesema-Magnuson

Affiliation Divison of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Deniz Ertürk-Hasdemir

Affiliation Divison of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicholas Paquette

Affiliation Divison of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Neal Silverman

neal.silverman@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Divison of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA NS. Performed the experiments: KA FR. Analyzed the data: KA NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CVM DEH NP. Wrote the paper: KA NS.