About the Authors

Abdullah M. Izmirly

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

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Adam-Nicolas Pelletier

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation RPM Bioinfo Solutions, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jennifer Connors

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bhavani Taramangalam

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sawsan O. Alturki

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Emma A. Gordon

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sana O. Alturki

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joshua C. Mell

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Gokul Swaminathan

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Vaccine Innovation, Boehringer Ingelheim, Lyon, France

Vivin Karthik

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michele A. Kutzler

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Esper G. Kallas

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Rafick-Pierre Sekaly

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Elias K. Haddad

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

ee336@drexel.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.