About the Authors

Sivakumar Periasamy

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Dorina Avram

Current address: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Amanda McCabe

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Katherine C. MacNamara

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Timothy J. Sellati

Current address: Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jonathan A. Harton

hartonj@mail.amc.edu

Affiliation Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP JAH TJS DA. Performed the experiments: SP AM. Analyzed the data: SP JAH TJS AM KCM DA. Wrote the paper: SP JAH.