About the Authors

Yasser Abdelrahman

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Scot P. Ouellette

Affiliation Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America

Robert J. Belland

jcox@uthsc.edu (JVC); rbelland@uthsc.edu (RJB)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

John V. Cox

jcox@uthsc.edu (JVC); rbelland@uthsc.edu (RJB)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JVC YA SPO RJB. Performed the experiments: JVC YA SPO. Analyzed the data: JVC YA SPO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SPO. Wrote the paper: JVC.