About the Authors

Fengchao Lang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fengchao Lang, Zhiguo Sun

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Departments of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and Microbiology, the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Zhiguo Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Fengchao Lang, Zhiguo Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Current address: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Departments of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and Microbiology, the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Yonggang Pei

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Departments of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and Microbiology, the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Rajnish Kumar Singh

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Departments of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and Microbiology, the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Hem Chandra Jha

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Centre for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India

Affiliation Departments of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and Microbiology, the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Erle S. Robertson

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

erle@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Affiliation Departments of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, and Microbiology, the Tumor Virology Program, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.