About the Authors

Michael J. Conway

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Linda Cruz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Samina Alam

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Neil D. Christensen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Craig Meyers

cmm10@psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJC LC SA NDC CM. Performed the experiments: MJC LC SA. Analyzed the data: MJC LC SA NDC CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJC LC SA NDC CM. Wrote the paper: MJC LC CM.