About the Authors

Erin E. McClelland

erin.mcclelland@mtsu.edu

Affiliations The Commonwealth Medical College, Department of Basic Sciences, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Biology, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States of America

Letizia M. Hobbs

Affiliations The Commonwealth Medical College, Department of Basic Sciences, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, Microbiology Laboratory, Jessup, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Johanna Rivera

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Arturo Casadevall

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Wayne K. Potts

Affiliation University of Utah, Department of Biology, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Jennifer M. Smith

Affiliation The Commonwealth Medical College, Department of Basic Sciences, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jeramia J. Ory

Affiliations The Commonwealth Medical College, Department of Basic Sciences, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America, King's College, Department of Biology, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EEM JMS JJO. Performed the experiments: EEM LMH JR JMS JJO. Analyzed the data: EEM JR JJO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EEM AC WKP JMS JJO. Wrote the paper: EEM AC JR WKP JMS JJO.