About the Authors

Jake Jianjun Wen

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Yuhui Whitney Yin

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Nisha Jain Garg

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

nigarg@utmb.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.