About the Authors

Kate Kosmac

katek@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Glenn R. Bantug

Current address: Immunobiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ester P. Pugel

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Djurdjica Cekinovic

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Stipan Jonjic

Affiliation Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

William J. Britt

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ WJB. Performed the experiments: KK GRB EPP DC WJB. Analyzed the data: KK GRB EPP DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJ WJB. Wrote the paper: KK WJB.