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About the Authors
- Saravanabalaji Shanmugam
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
- Alyssa K. Nichols
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
- Dhanaranjani Saravanabalaji
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Roles Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
- Christoph Welsch
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- MinKyung Yi
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: miyi@utmb.edu
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
Competing Interests
CW is a 2017 Award recipient of the Gilead Sciences International Research Scholars Program in Liver Diseases. The mission of this program is to support innovative scientific research that will advance knowledge in the field of liver diseases and provide support for research career development. He is not a employee of Gilead Sciences. We declare that we have no competing financial, professional, or personal interests relating to consultancy, patent, products in development or marketed product from this affiliation, and that this affiliation had no influence on the performance or presentation of the work described in this manuscript. This affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLOS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.