About the Authors
- Guanpingshen Luo
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor–University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
- Lin Lin
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Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor–University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Ashraf S. Ibrahim
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Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor–University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Beverlie Baquir
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Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor–University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
- Paul Pantapalangkoor
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Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor–University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America
- Robert A. Bonomo
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Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Yohei Doi
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Mark D. Adams
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Affiliation Department of Genetics and Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Thomas A. Russo
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Affiliation Veterans Administration Western New York Healthcare System, Division of Infectious Diseases, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
- Brad Spellberg
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* E-mail: bspellberg@labiomed.org
Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor–University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: LL BS. Performed the experiments: GL LL ASI BB PP YD MDA. Analyzed the data: RAB MDA TAR BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RAB MDA TAR BS. Wrote the paper: GL LL ASI RAB YD MDA TAR BS.