About the Authors

Ashley M. Groshong

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

Current address: Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

André A. Grassmann

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Amit Luthra

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Melissa A. McLain

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Anthony A. Provatas

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Justin D. Radolf

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

Affiliations Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Genome Science, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Immunology, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Melissa J. Caimano

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

Mcaima@uchc.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.