About the Authors

Karen C. Carroll

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen C. Carroll, Carey-Ann D. Burnham, Lars F. Westblade

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Carey-Ann D. Burnham

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen C. Carroll, Carey-Ann D. Burnham, Lars F. Westblade

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Lars F. Westblade

Contributed equally to this work with: Karen C. Carroll, Carey-Ann D. Burnham, Lars F. Westblade

law9067@med.cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.