About the Authors

Calvin Tiengwe

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Peter J. Bush

Affiliation South Campus Instrument Center, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, New York, United States of America

James D. Bangs

jdbangs@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CT JDB. Funding acquisition: JDB. Investigation: CT PJB. Methodology: CT PJB JDB. Project administration: CT PJB JDB. Resources: JDB. Supervision: JDB. Visualization: CT PJB JDB. Writing – original draft: CT. Writing – review & editing: CT PJB JDB.