About the Authors

Mary Melissa Roland

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Melissa Roland, Ahmed Dawood Mohammed

‡These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Ahmed Dawood Mohammed

Contributed equally to this work with: Mary Melissa Roland, Ahmed Dawood Mohammed

‡These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Jason Lee Kubinak

Jason.Kubinak@uscmed.sc.edu

Affiliation University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.