About the Authors

Benjamin E. Warner

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

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael B. Yee

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Mingdi Zhang

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rebecca S. Hornung

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Benedikt B. Kaufer

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Robert J. Visalli

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, Georgia, United States of America

Phillip R. Kramer

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

William F. Goins

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Paul R. Kinchington

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

kinchingtonp@upmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.