About the Authors

Yoon-Dong Park

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

Soowan Shin

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

John Panepinto

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Jeanie Ramos

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jin Qiu

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

Susana Frases

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America, Laboratorio de Ultraestrutura Cellular Hertha Meyer, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Patricia Albuquerque

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Radames J. B. Cordero

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Nannan Zhang

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

Uwe Himmelreich

Affiliation Biomedical NMR Unit, Department of Medical Diagnostic Sciences, Division of Radiology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

David Beenhouwer

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

John E. Bennett

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

Arturo Casadevall

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter R. Williamson

williamsonpr@mail.nih.gov

Affiliations Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YDP SS JP JR JQ SF PA RJBC UH DB JEB AC PRW. Performed the experiments: YDP SS JP JR JQ SF NZ DB PA RJBC UH. Analyzed the data: YDP SS JP JR JQ SF PA RJBC UH DB JEB AC PRW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YDP SS JP JR JQ SF PA RJBC UH DB. Wrote the paper: YDP SS JP JR JQ SF PA RJBC UH DB NZ JEB AC PRW.