About the Authors

Donna C. Davidson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Michael P. Hirschman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Anita Sun

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Meera V. Singh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Karl Kasischke

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany

Sanjay B. Maggirwar

sanjay_maggirwar@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 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: DCD MVS KK SBM. Performed the experiments: DCD MPH AS MVS. Analyzed the data: DCD MVS SBM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK SBM. Wrote the paper: DCD SBM.