About the Authors

Edward Sionov

Contributed equally to this work with: Edward Sionov, Hyeseung Lee, Yun C. Chang

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hyeseung Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Edward Sionov, Hyeseung Lee, Yun C. Chang

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yun C. Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Edward Sionov, Hyeseung Lee, Yun C. Chang

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kyung J. Kwon-Chung

june_kwon-chung@nih.gov

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES HL YCC KJKC. Performed the experiments: ES HL YCC. Analyzed the data: ES HL YCC. Wrote the paper: ES HL YCC KJKC.