About the Authors

Laty A. Cahoon

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

H. Steven Seifert

h-seifert@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAC HSS. Performed the experiments: LAC. Analyzed the data: LAC HSS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAC. Wrote the paper: LAC HSS.