About the Authors

Timothy R. Crother

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jun Ma

Affiliation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Madhulika Jupelli

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Norika Chiba

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shuang Chen

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Anatoly Slepenkin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Randa Alsabeh

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ellena Peterson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Kenichi Shimada

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Moshe Arditi

moshe.arditi@cshs.org

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, 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: TRC JM SC KS MA. Performed the experiments: TRC JM MJ NC . Analyzed the data: TRC JM RA KS MA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS EP RA MA. Wrote the paper: TRC KS MA.