About the Authors

Amber L. Rowse

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Rodrigo Naves

Current address: Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Kevin S. Cashman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Donald J. McGuire

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Tethia Mbana

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Chander Raman

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Patrizia De Sarno

desarno@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALR RN DJM CR PD. Performed the experiments: ALR RN KSC TM PD. Analyzed the data: ALR RN CR PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR PD. Wrote the paper: ALR CR PD.