About the Authors

Mathieu Iampietro

Contributed equally to this work with: Mathieu Iampietro, Patrick Younan

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Patrick Younan

Contributed equally to this work with: Mathieu Iampietro, Patrick Younan

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Andrew Nishida

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mukta Dutta

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ndongala Michel Lubaki

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Rodrigo I. Santos

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Richard A. Koup

Affiliation Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael G. Katze

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Washington National Primate Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alexander Bukreyev

alexander.bukreyev@utmb.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MI PY AB. Data curation: MI PY AN MD. Formal analysis: MI PY AN MD NML RIS RAK MGK AB. Funding acquisition: AB. Investigation: MI PY AN MD NML RIS AB. Methodology: MI PY AN MD NML RIS RAK MGK AB. Project administration: MGK AB. Supervision: AB. Validation: MI PY AN MD RIS AB. Visualization: MI PY AN MD RIS AB. Writing – original draft: MI PY AN MD RIS AB. Writing – review & editing: MI PY AB.