About the Authors

Tejas Bouklas

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Long Island University-Post, Brookville, New York, United States of America

Luz Alonso-Crisóstomo

Affiliation Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain

Tamás Székely Jr.

Affiliations The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Elizabeth Diago-Navarro

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Erika P. Orner

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

Kalie Smith

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Mansa A. Munshi

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

Maurizio Del Poeta

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Northport, New York, United States of America

Gábor Balázsi

Affiliations The Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Bettina C. Fries

bettina.fries@stonybrookmedicine.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Maurizio Del Poeta is the Chief Scientific Officer of MicroRid Technologies, Inc.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TB BCF MDP GB. Data curation: TB EPO TS GB. Formal analysis: TB TS EDN EPO BCF MDP GB. Funding acquisition: BCF GB MDP. Investigation: TB TS EDN LAC KS EPO MAM. Methodology: TB TS EDN BCF MDP GB. Project administration: TB BCF. Resources: BCF GB MDP. Software: TS GB. Supervision: BCF GB MDP. Validation: TB TS EDN EPO KS MAM. Visualization: TB EDN EPO TS BCF MAM. Writing – original draft: TB BCF. Writing – review & editing: TB EDN TS BCF MDP GB EPO MAM.