About the Authors

Sashi Kant

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

Affiliation University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Lin Liu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Andres Vazquez-Torres

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

andres.vazquez-torres@cuanschutz.edu

Affiliations University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Veterans Affairs, Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.