About the Authors

Jialei Xie

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Hui Zhi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Ryan J. Garrigues

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Andrew Keightley

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Brandon L. Garcia

Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon L. Garcia, Jon T. Skare

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

garciabr18@ecu.du (BLG); jskare@medicine.tamhsc.edu (JTS)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Jon T. Skare

Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon L. Garcia, Jon T. Skare

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

garciabr18@ecu.du (BLG); jskare@medicine.tamhsc.edu (JTS)

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.