About the Authors

Monica E. Embers

members@tulane.edu (MEE); Philipp@tulane.edu (MTP)

Affiliation Divisions of Bacteriology & Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Stephen W. Barthold

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Juan T. Borda

Affiliation Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Lisa Bowers

Affiliation Divisions of Bacteriology & Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Lara Doyle

Affiliation Veterinary Medicine, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Emir Hodzic

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Mary B. Jacobs

Affiliation Divisions of Bacteriology & Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Nicole R. Hasenkampf

Affiliation Divisions of Bacteriology & Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Dale S. Martin

Affiliation Divisions of Bacteriology & Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Sukanya Narasimhan

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kathrine M. Phillippi-Falkenstein

Affiliation Veterinary Medicine, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Jeanette E. Purcell

Current address: Biologic Resources Laboratory, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation Veterinary Medicine, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Marion S. Ratterree

Affiliation Veterinary Medicine, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Mario T. Philipp

members@tulane.edu (MEE); Philipp@tulane.edu (MTP)

Affiliation Divisions of Bacteriology & Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MEE MTP SWB. Performed the experiments: MEE EH LCB MBJ NRH DSM SN JEP MSR LAD. Analyzed the data: MEE SWB JTB KMP-F MTP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SWB EH MBJ. Wrote the paper: MEE MTP.