About the Authors

Sheetal Verma

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

Affiliation Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Department of Medicine, Centre for Emerging Pathogens, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Kamlesh Bhatt

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

Affiliation Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Department of Medicine, Centre for Emerging Pathogens, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Arianne Lovey

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Department of Medicine, Centre for Emerging Pathogens, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Rodrigo Ribeiro-Rodrigues

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Immunology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

Joan Durbin

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

Affiliation Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Department of Pathology, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Edward C. Jones-López

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Moises Palaci

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças de Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

Solange A. Vinhas

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mycobacteriology Laboratory, Núcleo de Doenças de Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

David Alland

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Department of Medicine, Centre for Emerging Pathogens, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Reynaldo Dietze

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Núcleo de Doenças Infecciosas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil, Global Health & Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Jerrold J. Ellner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Padmini Salgame

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

salgampa@njms.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Department of Medicine, Centre for Emerging Pathogens, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.