About the Authors

Ping Chu

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Department of Biology, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Aimee L. Cunningham

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Department of Biology, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jieh-Juen Yu

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Department of Biology, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jesse Q. Nguyen

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Department of Biology, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jeffrey R. Barker

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Department of Biology, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

C. Rick Lyons

Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Julie Wilder

Affiliation Applied Life Sciences & Toxicology, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Michelle Valderas

Affiliation Applied Life Sciences & Toxicology, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Robert L. Sherwood

Affiliation Applied Life Sciences & Toxicology, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Bernard P. Arulanandam

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Department of Biology, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Karl E. Klose

Karl.Klose@utsa.edu

Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Department of Biology, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PC ALC JJY JRB CRL JW MV RLS BPA KEK. Performed the experiments: PC ALC JJY JQN JRB JW MV. Analyzed the data: PC ALC JJY JQN JRB CRL JW MV RLS BPA KEK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRB JW BPA KEK. Wrote the paper: KEK.