About the Authors

Amber M. Smith

amber.smith@stjude.org

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

Frederick R. Adler

Affiliation Departments of Mathematics and Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Ruy M. Ribeiro

Affiliations Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Ryan N. Gutenkunst

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Julie L. McAuley

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jonathan A. McCullers

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

Alan S. Perelson

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMS JLM JAM. Performed the experiments: AMS JLM JAM. Analyzed the data: AMS FRA RMR JAM ASP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RNG. Wrote the paper: AMS FRA RMR JAM ASP.