About the Authors

David G. Glanville

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Ozcan Gazioglu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

Michela Marra

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Valerie L. Tokars

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tatyana Kushnir

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Medhanie Habtom

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

Nicholas J. Croucher

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

Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Sir Michael Uren Hub, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Yaffa Mizrachi Nebenzahl

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Alfonso Mondragón

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Hasan Yesilkaya

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

Andrew T. Ulijasz

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

aulijasz@luc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.