About the Authors
- Xiao-Li Huang
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Zheng Fan
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- LuAnn Borowski
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Robbie B. Mailliard
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Morgane Rolland
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- James I. Mullins
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Richard D. Day
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Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Charles R. Rinaldo
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* E-mail: rinaldo@pitt.edu
Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: XLH CRR. Performed the experiments: XLH ZF LB. Analyzed the data: XLH ZF MR JIM RDD CRR. Wrote the paper: RBM MR JIM CRR.