About the Authors

Hiyaa Singhee Ghosh

Current address: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael McBurney

Affiliation Ottawa Health Research Institute and Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Paul D. Robbins

probb@pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HSG. Performed the experiments: HSG. Analyzed the data: HSG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MWM. Wrote the paper: HSG. Principal Investigator of the project: PDR.