About the Authors

Derrick R. Samuelson

dsamu2@lsuhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care & Allergy/Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Judd E. Shellito

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care & Allergy/Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Vincent J. Maffei

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Eric D. Tague

Affiliation The Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Shawn R. Campagna

Affiliation The Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

Eugene E. Blanchard

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Meng Luo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Christopher M. Taylor

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Martin J. J. Ronis

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Patricia E. Molina

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

David A. Welsh

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care & Allergy/Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DRS DAW PEM MJJR JES. Data curation: DRS VJM EDT SRC EEB ML CMT. Formal analysis: DRS VJM EEB EDT. Funding acquisition: DAW PEM JES. Investigation: DRS VJM EDT. Methodology: DRS MJJR EEB ML PEM JES DAW. Project administration: DAW JES DRS. Resources: JES DAW PEM MJJR CMT SRC. Supervision: DAW JES PEM. Validation: DAW JES DRS. Visualization: DRS EEB VJM EDT. Writing – original draft: DRS. Writing – review & editing: DRS JES VJM EDT SRC CMT MJJR PEM DAW.