About the Authors

Jihye Kim

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Brian Alejandro

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Michal Hetman

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Eyas M. Hattab

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Joshua Joiner

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, United States of America

Horst Schroten

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

Hiroshi Ishikawa

Roles Resources

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Regenerative Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Dong-Hoon Chung

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

dhchun01@louisville.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America, Center for Predictive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.