About the Authors

Sita Awasthi

Affiliation Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lauren M. Hook

Affiliation Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Carolyn E. Shaw

Affiliation Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bapi Pahar

Affiliation Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Jacob A. Stagray

Current Address: Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

David Liu

Current Address: NIAID IRF, Division of Clinical Research, 8200 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, Maryland 21702

Affiliation Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Ronald S. Veazey

Affiliation Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Harvey M. Friedman

hfriedma@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliation Infectious Disease Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SA RSV HMF. Data curation: SA LMH CES BP RSV HMF. Formal analysis: SA LMH CES BP RSV HMF. Funding acquisition: SA RSV HMF. Investigation: SA LMH CES BP JAS DL RSV HMF. Methodology: SA LMH CES BP DL. Project administration: SA RSV HMF. Supervision: RSV HMF. Validation: SA LMH CES BP DL RSV HMF. Visualization: SA LMH CES BP RSV HMF. Writing – original draft: HMF. Writing – review & editing: SA LMH CES BP RSV HMF.