About the Authors

Jinyong Wang

Roles Investigation

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Manoranjan Sahoo

Roles Investigation

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Louis Lantier

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jonathan Warawa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Hector Cordero

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kelly Deobald

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Fabio Re

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

fabio.re@rosalindfranklin.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.