About the Authors

Sydney E. Herring

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Sovathiro Mao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Manmeet Bhalla

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Essi Y. I. Tchalla

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Jill M. Kramer

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Elsa N. Bou Ghanem

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Elsaboug@buffalo.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.