About the Authors

Yi Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Cai, Eleni Jaecklein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Regional Immunity and Diseases, Department of Pathogen Biology, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Eleni Jaecklein

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Cai, Eleni Jaecklein

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jared S. Mackenzie

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

Affiliation Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa

Kadamba Papavinasasundaram

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew J. Olive

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Xinchun Chen

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Regional Immunity and Diseases, Department of Pathogen Biology, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, China

Adrie J. C. Steyn

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa

Christopher M. Sassetti

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

Christopher.sassetti@umassmed.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.