About the Authors

Brian L. Weiss

brian.weiss@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jingwen Wang

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michele A. Maltz

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Yineng Wu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Serap Aksoy

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BLW JW MAM SA. Performed the experiments: BLW JW MAM YW SA. Analyzed the data: BLW JW MAM SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BLW SA. Wrote the paper: BLW SA.