About the Authors

Md. Suhail Alam

Affiliations Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Michelle Getz

Affiliations Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Innocent Safeukui

Affiliations Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Sue Yi

Affiliations Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Pamela Tamez

Current address: National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Jenny Shin

Affiliations Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Peter Velázquez

Affiliations Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, South Bend, Indiana, United States of America

Kasturi Haldar

khaldar@nd.edu

Affiliations Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Designed the research: MSA KH. Conceived and designed the experiments: MSA KH. Performed the experiments: MSA MG IS SY JS. Analyzed the data: MSA IS PT PV KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSA MG IS SY PT JS PV KH. Wrote the paper: MSA IS PV KH.