About the Authors

Patrick Chong

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Chong, Partho Chattoraj

Current address: Antimicrobial Resistance and Nosocomial Infections, National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnepeg, Canada

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Partho Chattoraj

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Chong, Partho Chattoraj

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Indranil Biswas

ibiswas@kumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IB PCN PCT. Performed the experiments: PCN PCT IB. Analyzed the data: IB PCN PCT. Wrote the paper: IB PCN.