About the Authors

Andrés G. Madrigal

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés G. Madrigal, Kenneth Barth

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kenneth Barth

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés G. Madrigal, Kenneth Barth

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

George Papadopoulos

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Caroline Attardo Genco

cgenco@bu.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AGM CAG. Performed the experiments: AGM KB GP. Analyzed the data: AGM KB GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGM KB GP CAG. Wrote the paper: AGM KB GP CAG.