About the Authors

Rui Zhou

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Ai-Yu Gong

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Alex N. Eischeid

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Xian-Ming Chen

xianmingchen@creighton.edu.

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RZ XMC. Performed the experiments: RZ AYG ANE. Analyzed the data: RZ AYG XMC. Wrote the paper: RZ XMC.