About the Authors

Thomas E. Eckland

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Ronald A. Shikiya

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Jason C. Bartz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jbartz@creighton.edu

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.