About the Authors

Sushma Boppana

Contributed equally to this work with: Sushma Boppana, Kai Qin, Jacob K. Files

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

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Kai Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Sushma Boppana, Kai Qin, Jacob K. Files

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

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jacob K. Files

Contributed equally to this work with: Sushma Boppana, Kai Qin, Jacob K. Files

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

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ronnie M. Russell

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Regina Stoltz

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Frederic Bibollet-Ruche

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anju Bansal

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Nathan Erdmann

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Beatrice H. Hahn

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

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Paul A. Goepfert

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

pgoepfert@uabmc.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.