About the Authors

Jamie L. Brooks

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Kimberly K. Jefferson

kkjefferson@vcu.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLB KKJ. Performed the experiments: JLB KKJ. Analyzed the data: JLB KKJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KKJ. Wrote the paper: JLB KKJ.