About the Authors

Larisa Pereboeva

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Erik Westin

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology Oncology, Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Toral Patel

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology Oncology, Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ian Flaniken

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology Oncology, Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Lawrence Lamb

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Aloysius Klingelhutz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Frederick Goldman

fgoldman@peds.uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology Oncology, Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LP EW FG. Performed the experiments: LP TP IF. Analyzed the data: LP EW FG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL AK. Wrote the paper: LP EW FG AK.