About the Authors

Gene S. Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Gene S. Tan, Paul E. Leon

Gene.Tan@mssm.edu (GST); Florian.Krammer@mssm.edu (FK)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Paul E. Leon

Contributed equally to this work with: Gene S. Tan, Paul E. Leon

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Randy A. Albrecht

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Irina Margine

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Ariana Hirsh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Justin Bahl

Affiliation School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Florian Krammer

Gene.Tan@mssm.edu (GST); Florian.Krammer@mssm.edu (FK)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FK GST. Performed the experiments: PEL GST AH RAA IM JB FK. Analyzed the data: GST JB FK. Wrote the paper: FK GST JB.