About the Authors

Timothy R. Crother

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Nicolas W. J. Schröder

Current address: Institute for Pathology, Charité Medical Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Justin Karlin

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shuang Chen

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kenichi Shimada

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Anatoly Slepenkin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Randa Alsabeh

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ellena Peterson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Moshe Arditi

moshe.arditi@cshs.org

Affiliation Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TRC NS JK MA SC KS. Performed the experiments: TRC NS JK. Analyzed the data: TRC NS KS MA RA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA AS EP. Wrote the paper: TRC MA.