About the Authors

Glen McGillivary

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Lauren O. Bakaletz

Lauren.Bakaletz@nationwidechildrens.org

Affiliation Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM LOB. Performed the experiments: GM. Analyzed the data: GM LOB. Wrote the paper: GM LOB.