About the Authors
- Volker Mai
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Contributed equally to this work with: Volker Mai, Christopher Michael Young
* E-mail: vmai@ufl.edu
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Sciences and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Christopher Michael Young
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Contributed equally to this work with: Volker Mai, Christopher Michael Young
Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Maria Ukhanova
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Sciences and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Xiaoyu Wang
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Sciences and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Yijun Sun
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Sciences and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- George Casella
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Affiliation Department of Statistics and Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Douglas Theriaque
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Affiliation Clinical & Translational Science Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Nan Li
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Renu Sharma
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Mark Hudak
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America
- Josef Neu
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VM JN RS MH GC DT. Performed the experiments: VM CMY MU LN JN RS MH. Analyzed the data: VM CMY JN DT XW YS MU LN RS MH GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VM JN RS. Wrote the paper: VM CMY JN RS MH GC XW. Bioinformatics/stats tool development: XW YS GC.