About the Authors

Nathan L. Bowers

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan L. Bowers, E. Scott Helton

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

E. Scott Helton

Contributed equally to this work with: Nathan L. Bowers, E. Scott Helton

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

Richard P. H. Huijbregts

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

Paul A. Goepfert

Affiliations Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Sonya L. Heath

Affiliations Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Zdenek Hel

zhel@uab.edu.

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NLB ESH RPHH PAG SLH ZH. Performed the experiments: NLB ESH RPHH. Analyzed the data: NLB ESH ZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PAG SLH. Wrote the paper: NLB ZH.