About the Authors

Balaji B. Ganesh

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Palash Bhattacharya

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Anupama Gopisetty

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jianrong Sheng

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Chenthamarakshan Vasu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Bellur S. Prabhakar

bprabhak@uic.edu

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BBG CV BSP. Performed the experiments: BBG PB AG JS. Analyzed the data: BBG. Wrote the paper: BBG CV BSP.