About the Authors

Adarsh S. Reddy

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jigisha R. Patel

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Carole Vogler

Affiliation Department of Pathology, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Robyn S. Klein

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Mark S. Sands

msands@dom.wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR RK MS. Performed the experiments: AR JP CV. Analyzed the data: AR JP CV RK MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CV RK MS. Wrote the paper: AR MS.