About the Authors

Reginald A. Woods

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

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago – College of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago – College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Iván C. Acosta

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago – College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Zachary J. Resko

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago - Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Charles Agbavor

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

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Luka Svet

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

Affiliation Department of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Manaar Yousef

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago – College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Wei Ping Teoh

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago - Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Victor J. Torres

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Host-Microbe Interactions, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Laty A. Cahoon

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Francis AlonzoIII

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

falonzo@uic.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago – College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Lead contact

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.