About the Authors

Melanie T. Cushion

Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie T. Cushion, A. George Smulian, Bradley E. Slaven

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: melanie.cushion@uc.edu, melanie.cushion@med.va.gov

Affiliations University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cincinnati Veterans Administration Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

A. George Smulian

Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie T. Cushion, A. George Smulian, Bradley E. Slaven

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Bradley E. Slaven

Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie T. Cushion, A. George Smulian, Bradley E. Slaven

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Tom Sesterhenn

Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jonathan Arnold

Affiliation University of Georgia, Department of Genetics, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Chuck Staben

Affiliation University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Aleksey Porollo

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Informatics, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Rafal Adamczak

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Informatics, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Jarek Meller

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Informatics, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC AS. Performed the experiments: MC AS TS JA. Analyzed the data: CS MC AS BS AP RA JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC AS BS JA AP JM. Wrote the paper: MC AS.