About the Authors

James T. Earnest

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, United States of America

Michael P. Hantak

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, United States of America

Kun Li

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Paul B. McCray Jr

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Stanley Perlman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America

Tom Gallagher

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tgallag@luc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.