About the Authors

Maliha Zahid

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

Brett E. Phillips

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sean M. Albers

Affiliation Center for Biologic Imaging, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nick Giannoukakis

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Simon C. Watkins

Affiliation Center for Biologic Imaging, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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: MZ SMA NG SCW PDR. Performed the experiments: MZ BEP. Analyzed the data: MZ BEP SMA SCW PDR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MZ BEP NG SCW PDR. Wrote the paper: MZ PDR.