About the Authors

Crystal W. Burke

Contributed equally to this work with: Crystal W. Burke, John N. Mason

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

John N. Mason

Contributed equally to this work with: Crystal W. Burke, John N. Mason

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Sherri L. Surman

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Bart G. Jones

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Emilie Dalloneau

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Julia L. Hurwitz

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Charles J. Russell

charles.russell@stjude.org

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJR CWB JLH. Performed the experiments: CWB JNM SLS BGJ ED. Analyzed the data: CWB JNM SLS BGJ ED JLH CJR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJR. Wrote the paper: CJR.