About the Authors

Gustavo Valbuena

Contributed equally to this work with: Gustavo Valbuena, Hailey Halliday

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Hailey Halliday

Contributed equally to this work with: Gustavo Valbuena, Hailey Halliday

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Viktoriya Borisevich

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Yenny Goez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Barry Rockx

barry.rockx@utmb.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GV BR. Performed the experiments: GV HH VB YG BR. Analyzed the data: GV BR. Wrote the paper: GV BR.