About the Authors

Derek Sham

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Umadevi V. Wesley

Current address: Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America, Vermont Lung Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Milena Hristova

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Albert van der Vliet

Albert.van-der-Vliet@uvm.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AvdV DS UVW. Performed the experiments: DS MH UVW. Analyzed the data: AvdV DS MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UVW. Wrote the paper: DS AvdV.