About the Authors

Saumya Maru

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ge Jin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Todd D. Schell

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Aron E. Lukacher

alukacher@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SM AEL. Data curation: SM. Formal analysis: SM. Funding acquisition: AEL. Investigation: SM GJ. Methodology: SM TDS AEL. Project administration: SM AEL. Resources: SM GJ TDS AEL. Software: SM. Supervision: AEL. Validation: SM AEL. Visualization: SM AEL. Writing – original draft: SM TDS AEL. Writing – review & editing: SM TDS AEL.