About the Authors

Michael T. McIntosh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mmcintosh@peds.ufl.edu (MTM); sbhadurimcintosh@ufl.edu (SBM)

Affiliations Child Health Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Siva Koganti

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

Current address: Centre for Advanced Research, SVIMS (Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences) University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

J. Lucas Boatwright

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Current address: Advanced Plant Technology Program, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America

Affiliation Bioinformatics Core Facility, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Xiaofan Li

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

Current address: HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Salvatore V. Spadaro

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

Alexis C. Brantly

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Jasmine B. Ayers

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

Ramon D. Perez

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

Eric M. Burton

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Current address: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Sandeepta Burgula

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Current address: Department of Microbiology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

Thomas MacCarthy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh

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

mmcintosh@peds.ufl.edu (MTM); sbhadurimcintosh@ufl.edu (SBM)

Affiliations Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.