About the Authors

Ruth Cruz Cosme

Affiliation Department of Microbiology/AIDS Research Program, Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Francisco Puerta Martínez

Affiliation Department of Microbiology/AIDS Research Program, Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Qiyi Tang

qtang@psm.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology/AIDS Research Program, Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ponce, Puerto Rico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: RCC FPM. Analyzed the data: RCC FPM QT. Wrote the paper: QT.