About the Authors

Julianne N. P. Smith

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

Current address: Case Western Reserve University, Department of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Yubin Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Current address: School of Public Health and Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jing Jing Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Amanda McCabe

Roles Data curation

Current address: Children’s Hospital Boston, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Karp Family Research Lab, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Hui Jin Jo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jackson Maloney

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Katherine C. MacNamara

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

MacnamK@amc.edu

‡ This author is the lead contact for this work.

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.