About the Authors

Bobbi Xayarath

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Francis Alonzo III

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Nancy E. Freitag

nfreitag@uic.edu.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BX FA NEF. Performed the experiments: BX FA. Analyzed the data: BX FA NEF. Wrote the paper: BX NEF.