About the Authors

Maurizio Del Poeta

maurizio.delpoeta@stonybrook.edu (MD); chiara.luberto@stonybrookmedicine.edu (CL)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Leonardo Nimrichter

Affiliation Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marcio L. Rodrigues

Affiliations Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz – Fiocruz, Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico em Saúde (CDTS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Chiara Luberto

maurizio.delpoeta@stonybrook.edu (MD); chiara.luberto@stonybrookmedicine.edu (CL)

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.