About the Authors

Radha Gopal

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Leticia Monin

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Samantha Slight

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Uzodinma Uche

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Emmeline Blanchard

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Beth A. Fallert Junecko

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rosalio Ramos-Payan

Affiliations Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Autonomous University of Sinaloa, Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Christina L. Stallings

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Todd A. Reinhart

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jay K. Kolls

Affiliation Richard King Mellon Foundation Institute for Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Deepak Kaushal

Affiliation Tulane National Primate Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Uma Nagarajan

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Javier Rangel-Moreno

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Shabaana A. Khader

khader@wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG LM SS UU EB BAFJ JRM. Performed the experiments: RG LM SS UU EB BAFJ JRM RRP. Analyzed the data: RG LM SS UU EB SAK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLS TAR JKK DK UN SAK. Wrote the paper: RG LM SAK.