About the Authors

Camille F. Abshire

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Ana-Maria Dragoi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Craig R. Roy

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Stanimir S. Ivanov

sivano@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AMD SSI. Formal analysis: AMD SSI. Funding acquisition: CRR SSI. Investigation: CFA AMD SSI. Methodology: SSI. Project administration: SSI. Resources: SSI CRR. Supervision: SSI. Validation: CFA AMD SSI. Visualization: AMD SSI. Writing – original draft: SSI. Writing – review & editing: CFA AMD SSI CRR.