About the Authors

Coreen Johnson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

T. R. Kannan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Joel B. Baseman

baseman@uthsca.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJ TRK JBB. Performed the experiments: CJ. Analyzed the data: CJ TRK JBB. Wrote the paper: CJ TRK JBB.