About the Authors

Christina Connell

Affiliation Departments of Public Health Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Hsin-I Tong

Affiliation Departments of Public Health Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Zi Wang

Affiliation Departments of Public Health Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Erin Allmann

Affiliation Departments of Public Health Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Yuanan Lu

Yuanan Lu yuanan@hawaii.edu

Affiliation Departments of Public Health Sciences and Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC YL. Performed the experiments: CC HT ZW EA. Analyzed the data: CC HT YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL. Wrote the paper: CC YL.