About the Authors

Fanping Kong

Contributed equally to this work with: Fanping Kong, Omar A. Saldarriaga

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Omar A. Saldarriaga

Contributed equally to this work with: Fanping Kong, Omar A. Saldarriaga

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Heidi Spratt

pcmelby@utmb.edu (PCM); hespratt@utmb.edu (HS)

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

E. Yaneth Osorio

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Bruno L. Travi

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Tropical Diseases and Institute for Human Infection and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Bruce A. Luxon

Affiliations Bioinformatics Program, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Peter C. Melby

pcmelby@utmb.edu (PCM); hespratt@utmb.edu (HS)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Tropical Diseases and Institute for Human Infection and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OAS EYO BLT PCM. Data curation: FK OAS HS BAL PCM. Formal analysis: FK OAS HS EYO PCM. Funding acquisition: PCM. Investigation: FK OAS EYO. Methodology: FK OAS HS EYO BLT BAL PCM. Project administration: FK OAS HS PCM. Supervision: HS BAL PCM. Validation: FK OAS HS EYO PCM. Visualization: FK OAS EYO PCM. Writing – original draft: FK OAS PCM. Writing – review & editing: FK OAS HS EYO BLT PCM.