About the Authors

Kendi Okuda

Kendi.Okuda@umassmed.edu (KO); Neal.Silverman@umassmed.edu (NS)

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mei Tong

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brian Dempsey

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kathryn J. Moore

Affiliation Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Ricardo T. Gazzinelli

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Neal Silverman

Kendi.Okuda@umassmed.edu (KO); Neal.Silverman@umassmed.edu (NS)

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KO RTG NS. Performed the experiments: KO MT BD. Analyzed the data: KO RTG NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS RTG KJM. Wrote the paper: KO NS KJM.