About the Authors

Patrick Younan

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Younan, Rodrigo I. Santos, Palaniappan Ramanathan

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

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Rodrigo I. Santos

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Younan, Rodrigo I. Santos, Palaniappan Ramanathan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Palaniappan Ramanathan

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Younan, Rodrigo I. Santos, Palaniappan Ramanathan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Mathieu Iampietro

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Andrew Nishida

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mukta Dutta

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Tatiana Ammosova

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Michelle Meyer

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Michael G. Katze

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, National Primate Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Vsevolod L. Popov

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Sergei Nekhai

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Alexander Bukreyev

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

alexander.bukreyev@utmb.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department Microbiology & Immunology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.