About the Authors

Ndongala Michel Lubaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Ndongala Michel Lubaki, Patrick Younan

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Patrick Younan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ndongala Michel Lubaki, Patrick Younan

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Rodrigo I. Santos

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Michelle Meyer

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Mathieu Iampietro

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Richard A. Koup

Affiliation Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Alexander Bukreyev

alexander.bukreyev@utmb.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NML PY RIS RAK AB. Performed the experiments: NML PY RIS MM MI. Analyzed the data: NML PY RIS MM MI RAK AB. Wrote the paper: NML PY RIS AB.