About the Authors

Martin Heisig

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Sarah Mattessich

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Alison Rembisz

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Ali Acar

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Department of Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Haydarpasa Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Martin Shapiro

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Carmen J. Booth

Affiliation Section of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Girish Neelakanta

Current address: Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Erol Fikrig

erol.fikrig@yale.edu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH EF. Performed the experiments: MH SM AR AA MS CJB GN. Analyzed the data: MH EF. Wrote the paper: MH EF.