About the Authors

Mingfang Lu

Lum3@niaid.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alan W. Varley

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Robert S. Munford

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML RSM AWV. Performed the experiments: ML. Analyzed the data: ML AWV RSM. Wrote the paper: RSM ML AWV.