About the Authors

Aarthi Sundararajan

Contributed equally to this work with: Aarthi Sundararajan, Lifang Huan

Affiliation David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Lifang Huan

Contributed equally to this work with: Aarthi Sundararajan, Lifang Huan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Katherine A. Richards

Affiliation David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Glendie Marcelin

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Virology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Shabnam Alam

Affiliation David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

HyeMee Joo

Affiliation Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Hongmei Yang

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Richard J. Webby

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Virology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

David J. Topham

Affiliation David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Andrea J. Sant

Affiliation David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Mark Y. Sangster

mark_sangster@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJT A. Sant MYS. Performed the experiments: A. Sundararajan LH KAR GM SA HJ MYS. Analyzed the data: HY DJT A. Sant MYS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJW. Wrote the paper: A. Sant MYS.