About the Authors

Roxanne C. Strahan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, United States of America

Maria McDowell-Sargent

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, United States of America

Timsy Uppal

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, United States of America

Pravinkumar Purushothaman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, United States of America

Subhash C. Verma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

scverma@medicine.nevada.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.