About the Authors

Kattareeya Kumthip

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Darong Yang

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Institute of Pathogen Biology and Immunology of College of Biology, State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Nan L. Li

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Yunzhi Zhang

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Infectious Diseases, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Meiyun Fan

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Aarti Sethuraman

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Kui Li

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

kli1@uthsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.