About the Authors

Alexandra D. Powell-Pierce

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

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan/College Station, Texas, United States of America

Charles E. Booth, Jr.

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Payton G. Smith

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

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan/College Station, Texas, United States of America

Brittany L. Shapiro

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan/College Station, Texas, United States of America

Shannon S. Allen

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

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan/College Station, Texas, United States of America

Brandon L. Garcia

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

jskare@tamu.edu (JTS); garciab@ksu.edu (BLG)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Jon T. Skare

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

jskare@tamu.edu (JTS); garciab@ksu.edu (BLG)

Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan/College Station, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.