About the Authors

Rajnish Kumar Singh

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

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Zachary L. Lamplugh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Fengchao Lang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Yan Yuan

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Levy Building, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Paul Lieberman

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

Affiliation Program in Gene Regulation, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, United States of America

Jianxin You

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Erle S. Robertson

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

erle@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.