About the Authors

James P. Phelan

Contributed equally to this work with: James P. Phelan, Aurelie Kern, Meghan E. Ramsey

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

James.Phelan@tufts.edu (JPP); Linden.Hu@tufts.edu (STH)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aurelie Kern

Contributed equally to this work with: James P. Phelan, Aurelie Kern, Meghan E. Ramsey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Meghan E. Ramsey

Contributed equally to this work with: James P. Phelan, Aurelie Kern, Meghan E. Ramsey

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maureen E. Lundt

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bijaya Sharma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tao Lin

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Lihui Gao

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MD Anderson Cancer Center Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Steven J. Norris

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, McGovern Medical School at UT Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jenny A. Hyde

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

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Jon T. Skare

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

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A & M University Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Linden T. Hu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

James.Phelan@tufts.edu (JPP); Linden.Hu@tufts.edu (STH)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.