About the Authors

Christopher S. Eickhoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher S. Eickhoff, Xiuli Zhang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Xiuli Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher S. Eickhoff, Xiuli Zhang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jose R. Vasconcelos

Affiliation Departamento de Biociências, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Santos, Brazil

R. Geoffrey Motz

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Nicole L. Sullivan

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kelly O’Shea

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Nicola Pozzi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

David W. Gohara

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jennifer R. Blase

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Enrico Di Cera

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Daniel F. Hoft

hoftdf@slu.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CSE XZ DFH. Data curation: CSE. Formal analysis: CSE XZ DWG NP DFH. Funding acquisition: JRV EDC DFH. Investigation: CSE XZ JRV RGM NLS KO NP DWG JRB. Methodology: CSE XZ JRV NP DWG EDC DFH. Project administration: CSE EDC DFH. Resources: DWG NP EDC DFH. Supervision: EDC DFH. Validation: CSE XZ DFH. Visualization: CSE XZ NP DWG DFH. Writing – original draft: CSE XZ DFH. Writing – review & editing: CSE DFH.