About the Authors

Rebecca L. Barnes

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca L. Barnes, Huafang Shi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Huafang Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca L. Barnes, Huafang Shi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Nikolay G. Kolev

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Christian Tschudi

christian.tschudi@yale.edu

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Elisabetta Ullu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RLB HS NGK CT EU. Performed the experiments: RLB HS NGK CT EU. Analyzed the data: RLB HS NGK CT EU. Wrote the paper: RLB CT EU.