About the Authors

Araceli E. Santiago

aes8j@virginia.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine and University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Fernando Ruiz-Perez

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine and University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Noah Y. Jo

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine and University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Vidhya Vijayakumar

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine and University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mei Q. Gong

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine and University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

James P. Nataro

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine and University of Virginia Children's Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AES FRP JPN. Performed the experiments: AES FRP NYJ VV MQG. Analyzed the data: AES JPN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FRP. Wrote the paper: AES JPN.