About the Authors

Ling Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

wangl3@etsu.edu (LW); nings1@etsu.edu (SN)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America, Center of Excellence for Inflammation, Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Mary E. A. Howell

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Ayrianna Sparks-Wallace

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Caroline Hawkins

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Camri A. Nicksic

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Carissa Kohne

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Kenton H. Hall

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Jonathan P. Moorman

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America, Center of Excellence for Inflammation, Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America, The HCV/HIV Program, James H Quillen VA Medical Center, Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Zhi Q. Yao

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America, Center of Excellence for Inflammation, Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America, The HCV/HIV Program, James H Quillen VA Medical Center, Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Shunbin Ning

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

wangl3@etsu.edu (LW); nings1@etsu.edu (SN)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America, Center of Excellence for Inflammation, Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests.