About the Authors

Eduardo Salinas

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Inflammatory Responses, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Arundhati Gupta

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Inflammatory Responses, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Jeffrey M. Sifford

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Inflammatory Responses, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Darby G. Oldenburg

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America

Douglas W. White

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gundersen Health System, La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America

J. Craig Forrest

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

JCForrest@uams.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Inflammatory Responses, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.