About the Authors

Ashwanth C. Francis

Affiliation Department of Pediatric, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mariana Marin

Affiliation Department of Pediatric, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jiong Shi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Christopher Aiken

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Gregory B. Melikyan

gmeliki@emory.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatric, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACF GBM CA. Performed the experiments: ACF MM JS. Analyzed the data: ACF MM GBM CA JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CA. Wrote the paper: GBM ACF MM CA.