About the Authors

Seong-Jun Kim

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Gulam H. Syed

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Aleem Siddiqui

asiddiqui@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJK GHS AS. Performed the experiments: SJK GHS. Analyzed the data: SJK GHS AS. Wrote the paper: SJK GHS AS.