About the Authors

Karthickeyan Chella Krishnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Karthickeyan Chella Krishnan, Santhosh Mukundan

Current Address: Department of Medicine/Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Santhosh Mukundan

Contributed equally to this work with: Karthickeyan Chella Krishnan, Santhosh Mukundan

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Jeyashree Alagarsamy

Current Address: Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, California, United States of America

‡ JA and JH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Junguk Hur

‡ JA and JH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Suba Nookala

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Nikolai Siemens

Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Centre for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Mattias Svensson

Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Centre for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Ole Hyldegaard

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anna Norrby-Teglund

Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Centre for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Malak Kotb

malak.kotb@med.und.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KCK SM MS ANT MK. Performed the experiments: KCK SM JA NS SN. Analyzed the data: KCK SM JA JH NS SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH OH. Wrote the paper: KCK SM JH NS ANT MK.