About the Authors

Koenraad Van Doorslaer

Current address: Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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

Rob DeSalle

Affiliation Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Mark H. Einstein

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert D. Burk

robert.burk@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, 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: KVD RDB. Performed the experiments: KVD. Analyzed the data: KVD RD RDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHE. Wrote the paper: KVD RD RDB.