About the Authors

Sarah A. Tursi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ernest Y. Lee

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Nicole J. Medeiros

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael H. Lee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lauren K. Nicastro

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bettina Buttaro

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Stefania Gallucci

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ronald Paul Wilson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gerard C. L. Wong

ctukel@temple.edu (CT); gclwong@seas.ucla.edu (GCLW)

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Çagla Tükel

ctukel@temple.edu (CT); gclwong@seas.ucla.edu (GCLW)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CT GCLW SAT RPW SG BB. Data curation: GCLW CT. Formal analysis: SAT EYL GCLW MHL SG CT. Funding acquisition: CT SG GCLW. Investigation: SAT EYL NJM MHL LKN BB. Methodology: SAT EYL GCLW CT. Project administration: GCLW CT. Resources: GCLW CT. Software: EYL GCLW. Supervision: RPW BB SG GCLW CT. Validation: SAT MHL EYL GCLW CT. Visualization: SAT CT EYL GCLW. Writing – original draft: SAT EYL GCLW CT. Writing – review & editing: RPW SG.