About the Authors

Ramesh Akkina

akkina@colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Bradford K. Berges

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Brent E. Palmer

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Leila Remling

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

C. Preston Neff

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Jes Kuruvilla

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Elizabeth Connick

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Joy Folkvord

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Kathy Gagliardi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Afework Kassu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Sarah R. Akkina

Current address: University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RA. Performed the experiments: BKB BEP LR CPN JK EC JF KG AK SRA. Analyzed the data: RA BKB BEP CPN EC JF KG AK SRA. Wrote the paper: RA BKB.