About the Authors

Bao Lige

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Julia D. Romano

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Veera Venkata Ratnam Bandaru

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Karen Ehrenman

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jelena Levitskaya

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Vera Sampels

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Norman J. Haughey

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Isabelle Coppens

icoppens@jhsph.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IC BL JL JDR. Performed the experiments: IC BL JDR VVRB VS NJH KE. Analyzed the data: IC BL JDR NJH JL VVRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NJH. Wrote the paper: IC JDR.