About the Authors

Win Surachetpong

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Naresh Singh

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Kong Wai Cheung

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Shirley Luckhart

sluckhart@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WS NS SL. Performed the experiments: WS NS KWC. Analyzed the data: WS NS KWC SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL. Wrote the paper: WS SL. Edited the manuscript: WS NS KWC SL.