About the Authors

Da-Jiang Li

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Dinesh Verma

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Tim Mosbruger

Affiliation Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Sankar Swaminathan

sankar.swaminathan@hsc.utah.edu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS DJL DV. Performed the experiments: DJL DV. Analyzed the data: DJL TM SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJL DV SS TM. Wrote the paper: DJL SS.