About the Authors

Savannah E. Howe

Contributed equally to this work with: Savannah E. Howe, Nita Shillova

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Current address: Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Microbiology Program, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Nita Shillova

Contributed equally to this work with: Savannah E. Howe, Nita Shillova

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

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Microbiology Program, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Vjollca Konjufca

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vjollca@micro.siu.edu

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Microbiology Program, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.