About the Authors

Aarti Gautam

Current address: Integrative Systems Biology Program, U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Saurabh Dixit

Affiliations Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America, Center for Nanobiotechnology Research, Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama, United States of America

Monica Embers

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Rajeev Gautam

Current address: Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Mario T. Philipp

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Shree R. Singh

Affiliation Center for Nanobiotechnology Research, Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama, United States of America

Lisa Morici

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Vida A. Dennis

vdennis@alasu.edu

Affiliations Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America, Center for Nanobiotechnology Research, Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG VAD. Performed the experiments: AG SD ME VAD. Analyzed the data: SD AG RG LM VAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RG SRS MTP. Wrote the paper: AG SD VAD MTP.