About the Authors

Supriya Shukla

Contributed equally to this work with: Supriya Shukla, Edward T. Richardson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Edward T. Richardson

Contributed equally to this work with: Supriya Shukla, Edward T. Richardson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Jaffre J. Athman

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Libin Shi

Affiliation Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Pamela A. Wearsch

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

David McDonald

Affiliations Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Niaz Banaei

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

W. Henry Boom

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Mary Jackson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Clifford V. Harding

cvh3@cwru.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS ETR JJA PAW DM NB WHB MJ CVH. Performed the experiments: SS ETR JJA LS PAW DM MJ. Analyzed the data: SS ETR JJA LS PAW DM NB WHB MJ CVH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM NB MJ CVH. Wrote the paper: SS ETR JJA PAW DM NB WHB MJ CVH.