About the Authors

Amanda W. Rushing

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

rushinga18@ecu.edu (AWR); lemassoni@ecu.edu (IL)

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

Blake Rushing

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

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

Kimson Hoang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Stephanie V. Sanders

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Jean-Marie Péloponèse Jr.

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

Affiliation Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Nicholas Polakowski

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

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

Isabelle Lemasson

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

rushinga18@ecu.edu (AWR); lemassoni@ecu.edu (IL)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.