About the Authors

Tyler D. Bold

Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America

Niaz Banaei

Current address: Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America

Andrea J. Wolf

Current address: Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America

Joel D. Ernst

joel.ernst@med.nyu.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TDB JDE. Performed the experiments: TDB NB AJW. Analyzed the data: TDB JDE. Wrote the paper: TDB JDE.