About the Authors

Iwona A. Buskiewicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Iwona A. Buskiewicz, Andreas Koenig

ibuskiew@uvm.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Andreas Koenig

Contributed equally to this work with: Iwona A. Buskiewicz, Andreas Koenig

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Brian Roberts

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Jennifer Russell

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Cuixia Shi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Sun-Hwa Lee

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Jae U. Jung

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Sally A. Huber

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Ralph C. Budd

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Vermont Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IAB AK SAH RCB. Performed the experiments: IAB AK BR JR CS SAH RCB. Analyzed the data: IAB AK SAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL JUJ. Wrote the paper: IAB AK SAH RCB.