About the Authors

Josephine M. Reynaud

Contributed equally to this work with: Josephine M. Reynaud, Dal Young Kim

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Dal Young Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Josephine M. Reynaud, Dal Young Kim

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Svetlana Atasheva

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Aliaksandra Rasalouskaya

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

James P. White

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Michael S. Diamond

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Scott C. Weaver

Affiliations Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Elena I. Frolova

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ilya Frolov

ivfrolov@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMR DYK SA EIF SCW IF. Performed the experiments: JMR DYK AR SA JPW EIF IF. Analyzed the data: JMR DYK SA EIF MSD SCW IF. Wrote the paper: JMR EIF MSD SCW IF.