About the Authors

Roberta Leonardi

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Jerold E. Rehg

Affiliation Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Charles O. Rock

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Suzanne Jackowski

suzanne.jackowski@stjude.org

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL CR SJ. Performed the experiments: RL JER. Analyzed the data: RL JER CR SJ. Wrote the paper: RL JER CR SJ.