About the Authors

Sallieu Jalloh

Contributed equally to this work with: Sallieu Jalloh, Judith Olejnik

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Judith Olejnik

Contributed equally to this work with: Sallieu Jalloh, Judith Olejnik

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jacob Berrigan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Annuurun Nisa

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Ellen L. Suder

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hisashi Akiyama

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maohua Lei

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sita Ramaswamy

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sanjay Tyagi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Yuri Bushkin

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Elke Mühlberger

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ EM and SG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Suryaram Gummuluru

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

rgummulu@bu.edu

‡ EM and SG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.