About the Authors

Rajnish Kumar Singh

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

Affiliation Departments of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Fengchao Lang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Departments of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Yonggang Pei

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Departments of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Hem Chandra Jha

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Discipline of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Erle S. Robertson

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

erle@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliation Departments of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared taht no competing interest exist.