About the Authors

Emily N. Gallichotte

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Thomas J. Baric

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Boyd L. Yount Jr

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Douglas G. Widman

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Anna Durbin

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Steve Whitehead

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ralph S. Baric

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

rbaric@email.unc.edu (RSB); aravinda_desilva@med.unc.edu (AMdS)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Aravinda M. de Silva

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

rbaric@email.unc.edu (RSB); aravinda_desilva@med.unc.edu (AMdS)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.