About the Authors

Josep Bassaganya-Riera

jbassaga@vt.edu

Affiliation Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Monica Viladomiu

Affiliation Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Mireia Pedragosa

Affiliation Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Claudio De Simone

Affiliation Experimental Medicine, L'Aquila University, L'Aquila, Italy

Raquel Hontecillas

Affiliation Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

Co-author Josep Bassaganya-Riera is a PLoS ONE editorial board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JBR RH. Performed the experiments: MV MP. Analyzed the data: MV MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JBR RH CDS. Wrote the paper: JBR RH MV MP.