About the Authors

Ekaterina Dadachova

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: edadacho@aecom.yu.edu

Affiliations Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ruth A. Bryan

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Xianchun Huang

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Tiffany Moadel

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Andrew D. Schweitzer

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Philip Aisen

Affiliation Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Joshua D. Nosanchuk

Affiliations Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Arturo Casadevall

Affiliations Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC ED RB. Performed the experiments: RB AS PA JN XH TM. Analyzed the data: AC ED RB XH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PA JN. Wrote the paper: AC ED. Other: Suggested the idea for the study: AC.