About the Authors

Marion Russier

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Guohua Yang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Atanaska Marinova-Petkova

Current address: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Peter Vogel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Bryan S. Kaplan

Current address: USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Ames, Iowa, United States

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Richard J. Webby

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Charles J. Russell

Charles.Russell@stjude.org

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MR CJR. Formal analysis: MR PV CJR. Funding acquisition: CJR. Investigation: MR GY AMP. Methodology: RJW CJR. Resources: BSK RJW. Supervision: CJR. Writing – original draft: MR CJR. Writing – review & editing: MR GY AMP PV BSK RJW CJR.