About the Authors

Chengcheng Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Affiliation Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Kendall Stocke

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Zackary R. Fitzsimonds

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Lan Yakoumatos

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Daniel P. Miller

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Richard J. Lamont

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rich.lamont@louisville.edu

Affiliation Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.