About the Authors

Rajarshi Bhadra

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Hongbing Guan

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Imtiaz A. Khan

mtmixk@gwumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB HG IAK. Performed the experiments: RB HG. Analyzed the data: RB HG IAK. Wrote the paper: RB IAK.