About the Authors

Xiaofan Li

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

Eric M. Burton

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh

sumita.bhaduri-mcintosh@stonybrook.edu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SBM XL EMB. Formal analysis: SBM XL EMB. Funding acquisition: SBM. Investigation: XL EMB. Methodology: SBM XL EMB. Project administration: SBM. Supervision: SBM. Validation: SBM XL. Visualization: SBM XL EMB. Writing – original draft: SBM XL. Writing – review & editing: SBM XL.