About the Authors

Nancy M. Sawtell

nancy.sawtell@cchmc.org (NMS); richard.thompson@uc.edu (RLT)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Richard L. Thompson

nancy.sawtell@cchmc.org (NMS); richard.thompson@uc.edu (RLT)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Biochemistry, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RLT NMS. Data curation: RLT NMS. Formal analysis: RLT NMS. Funding acquisition: RLT NMS. Investigation: RLT NMS. Methodology: RLT NMS. Project administration: RLT NMS. Resources: RLT NMS. Supervision: RLT NMS. Validation: RLT NMS. Visualization: RLT NMS. Writing – original draft: RLT NMS. Writing – review & editing: RLT NMS.