About the Authors

Sheetal Gandotra

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Maria B. Lebron

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Sabine Ehrt

sae2004@med.cornell.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG MBL SE. Performed the experiments: SG MBL. Analyzed the data: SG MBL SE. Wrote the paper: SG SE.