About the Authors

Shankar Thangamani

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

sthangam@purdue.edu (ST); lionakism@mail.nih.gov (MSL)

Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Abishek Balakumar

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Abhishek Datta

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Garrett Bryak

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Michail S. Lionakis

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sthangam@purdue.edu (ST); lionakism@mail.nih.gov (MSL)

Affiliation Fungal Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.