About the Authors

Jennifer Y. Wang

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Bing Zhu

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

LaNisha L. Patterson

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Madison R. Rogan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Clayton E. Kibler

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Jere W. McBride

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jemcbrid@utmb.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.