About the Authors

Elisabeth Baum

Contributed equally to this work with: Elisabeth Baum, Arlo Z. Randall

ebaum@uci.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Arlo Z. Randall

Contributed equally to this work with: Elisabeth Baum, Arlo Z. Randall

Affiliation Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Michael Zeller

Affiliation Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Alan G. Barbour

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California - Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EB AZR AGB. Performed the experiments: EB AZR. Analyzed the data: MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB AZR. Wrote the paper: EB AZR.