About the Authors

Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart, Ana V. Rojas

Current address: Genomic Center, USAMRIID, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation David H Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Ana V. Rojas

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart, Ana V. Rojas

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Margaret M. Fettis

Affiliation David H Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Richard Bauserman

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Trissha R. Higa

Affiliation David H Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Hongyu Miao

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Richard E. Waugh

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Jim Miller

jim_miller@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation David H Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSL AVR REW JM. Performed the experiments: MLS AVR MMF TRH RB. Analyzed the data: MSL AVR MMF RB JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSL AVR MMF TRH HM REW. Wrote the paper: AVR JM. Provided support and technical advice: HM REW.