About the Authors

Lucas E. Cavallin

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucas E. Cavallin, Qi Ma, Julian Naipauer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Viral Oncology Program, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Center for AIDS Research, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Qi Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucas E. Cavallin, Qi Ma, Julian Naipauer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Viral Oncology Program, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Center for AIDS Research, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Julian Naipauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucas E. Cavallin, Qi Ma, Julian Naipauer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Viral Oncology Program, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Center for AIDS Research, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Sachin Gupta

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Viral Oncology Program, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Center for AIDS Research, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Mani Kurian

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Viral Oncology Program, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Center for AIDS Research, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Paola Locatelli

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Viral Oncology Program, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Center for AIDS Research, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Paolo Romanelli

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Mehrdad Nadji

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont

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

emesri@med.miami.edu (EAM); pgoldschmidt@med.miami.edu (PJGC)

Affiliations Viral Oncology Program, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Center for AIDS Research, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Enrique A. Mesri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft

emesri@med.miami.edu (EAM); pgoldschmidt@med.miami.edu (PJGC)

Affiliation Viral Oncology Program, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Center for AIDS Research, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements), or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.