About the Authors

Omar M. El-Halfawy

Affiliations Centre for Human Immunology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Miguel A. Valvano

m.valvano@qub.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Human Immunology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OME MAV. Performed the experiments: OME. Analyzed the data: OME MAV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OME. Wrote the paper: OME MAV.