About the Authors

Mandi Wiley

Contributed equally to this work with: Mandi Wiley, Crystal Teygong

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Crystal Teygong

Contributed equally to this work with: Mandi Wiley, Crystal Teygong

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Eric Phelps

Current address: Department of Biology, Oklahoma Christian University, Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Jay Radke

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology & the Center for Immunotherapies to Zoonotic Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Ira J. Blader

iblader@ouhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW CT EP JR IJB. Performed the experiments: MW CT EP JR. Analyzed the data: MW CT JR IJB. Wrote the manuscript: MW IJB.