About the Authors

Michael L. Davies

‡ These authors share joint first authorship on this work.

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

Nikhil J. Parekh

‡ These authors share joint first authorship on this work.

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

Lauren W. Kaminsky

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

Chetna Soni

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

Irene E. Reider

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

Tracy E. Krouse

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

Matthew A. Fischer

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

Nico van Rooijen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Vrije Universiteit, BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ziaur S. M. Rahman

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

Christopher C. Norbury

ccn1@psu.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MLD MAF CCN. Data curation: CCN. Formal analysis: MLD NJP TEK CCN. Funding acquisition: CCN. Investigation: MLD NJP LWK CS IER TEK. Methodology: NvR MAF CCN. Project administration: CCN. Resources: NvR. Supervision: ZSMR CCN. Validation: MLD NJP CCN. Visualization: MLD NJP CS TEK CCN. Writing – original draft: MLD CCN. Writing – review & editing: MLD NJP CCN.