About the Authors

Donna E. Akiyoshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Donna E. Akiyoshi, Hilary G. Morrison

donna.akiyoshi@tufts.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hilary G. Morrison

Contributed equally to this work with: Donna E. Akiyoshi, Hilary G. Morrison

Affiliation Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shi Lei

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiaochuan Feng

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Quanshun Zhang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicolas Corradi

Affiliation Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Harriet Mayanja

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Makerere University Medical School, Kampala, Uganda

James K. Tumwine

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Mulago Hospital, Makerere University Medical School, Kampala, Uganda

Patrick J. Keeling

Affiliation Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Louis M. Weiss

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Saul Tzipori

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DEA HGM XF LMW ST. Performed the experiments: DEA XF. Analyzed the data: DEA HGM SL NC PJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XF QZ HM JKT ST. Wrote the paper: DEA HGM SL PJK.