About the Authors

Samuel Jalali

Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel Jalali, Gurukumar K. Ramanathan

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida, United States of America

Gurukumar K. Ramanathan

Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel Jalali, Gurukumar K. Ramanathan

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida, United States of America

Prasanna Tamarapu Parthasarathy

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida, United States of America

Salman Aljubran

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida, United States of America

Lakshmi Galam

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida, United States of America

Asfiya Yunus

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida, United States of America

Sara Garcia

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida, United States of America

Ruan R. Cox Jr.

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida, United States of America

Richard F. Lockey

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida, United States of America

Narasaiah Kolliputi

nkollipu@health.usf.edu

Affiliation Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ NK. Performed the experiments: SJ GKR PTP SA LG AY SG. Analyzed the data: SJ GKR RRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RRC RFL. Wrote the paper: GKR NK.