About the Authors

Qi Yuan

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Peter Kiewit Institute, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Thomas Eckland

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Glenn Telling

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

Jason Bartz

jbartz@creighton.edu (JB); sbartelt2@unl.edu (SBH)

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Shannon Bartelt-Hunt

jbartz@creighton.edu (JB); sbartelt2@unl.edu (SBH)

Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Peter Kiewit Institute, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QY SBH JB. Performed the experiments: QY TE JB. Analyzed the data: QY SBH JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GT. Wrote the paper: QY SBH JB.