About the Authors

Kirsten E. Wiens

Affiliations Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Joel D. Ernst

joel.ernst@med.nyu.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, 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: KEW JDE. Performed the experiments: KEW. Analyzed the data: KEW. Wrote the paper: KEW JDE.