About the Authors

Sharad Pathak

sharad.pathak@gades.uib.no

Affiliations Section for Microbiology and Immunology, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Jane A. Awuh

Affiliation Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Nils Anders Leversen

Affiliation Section for Microbiology and Immunology, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Trude H. Flo

Affiliation Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Birgitta Åsjø

Affiliations Section for Microbiology and Immunology, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SP JAA NAL THF BÅ. Performed the experiments: SP JAA NAL THF BÅ. Analyzed the data: SP JAA THF BÅ. Wrote the paper: SP JAA NAL THF BÅ.