About the Authors

Derek B. Danahy

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

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Scott M. Anthony

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Isaac J. Jensen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Stacey M. Hartwig

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Qiang Shan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Hai-Hui Xue

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

John T. Harty

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Thomas S. Griffith

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Ph.D. Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Urology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Vladimir P. Badovinac

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

vladimir-badovinac@uiowa.edu

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.