About the Authors

Xuejun Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuejun Xu, Moses M. Kasembeli

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Moses M. Kasembeli

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuejun Xu, Moses M. Kasembeli

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xueqing Jiang

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Benjamin J. Tweardy

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

David J. Tweardy

dtweardy@bcm.edu

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJT. Performed the experiments: XX MMK XJ BJT. Analyzed the data: XX MMK XJ DJT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJT. Wrote the paper: XX MMK DJT.