About the Authors
- Catherine W. Cai
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Contributed equally to this work with: Catherine W. Cai, Jennifer R. Blase
Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Jennifer R. Blase
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Contributed equally to this work with: Catherine W. Cai, Jennifer R. Blase
Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Xiuli Zhang
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Current address: Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Christopher S. Eickhoff
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Daniel F. Hoft
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* E-mail: hoftdf@slu.edu
Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: CWC JRB CSE DFH. Data curation: CWC JRB XZ CSE DFH. Formal analysis: CWC JRB CSE DFH. Funding acquisition: DFH. Investigation: CWC JRB XZ CSE DFH. Methodology: CWC JRB XZ CSE DFH. Resources: DFH. Supervision: DFH. Validation: CWC JRB. Visualization: CWC JRB DFH. Writing – original draft: CWC JRB. Writing – review & editing: CWC JRB XZ CSE DFH.