About the Authors

Jen-Feng Lai

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Carlene L. Zindl

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Lynn B. Duffy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

T. Prescott Atkinson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yong Woo Jung

Current address: Department of Immunobiology, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Nico van Rooijen

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ken B. Waites

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Duncan C. Krause

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

David D. Chaplin

dchaplin@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFL CLZ TPA YWJ KBW DDC. Performed the experiments: JFL LBD YWJ. Analyzed the data: JFL LBD TPA KBW DCK DDC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLZ NvR DCK. Wrote the paper: JFL DDC.