About the Authors

Stewart Coleman

Contributed equally to this work with: Stewart Coleman, K. Yeon Choi

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunology, Texas A&M University, Health Science Center, College of Medicine, College Station, Texas, United States of America

K. Yeon Choi

Contributed equally to this work with: Stewart Coleman, K. Yeon Choi

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunology, Texas A&M University, Health Science Center, College of Medicine, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Matthew Root

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunology, Texas A&M University, Health Science Center, College of Medicine, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Alistair McGregor

mcgregor@medicine.tamhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis & Immunology, Texas A&M University, Health Science Center, College of Medicine, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM KYC SC. Performed the experiments: AM KYC SC MR. Analyzed the data: AM KYC SC MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM KYC. Wrote the paper: AM KYC SC.