About the Authors

Dionna W. Williams

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Tina M. Calderon

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Lillie Lopez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Loreto Carvallo-Torres

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Peter J. Gaskill

Affiliation Department of Pathology, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Eliseo A. Eugenin

Affiliations Public Health Research Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Susan Morgello

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Joan W. Berman

joan.berman@einstein.yu.edu

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

Competing Interests

Dionna Williams is the recipient of a Merck Graduate Science Dissertation Fellowship. As such,we state that this does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DWW TMC LL JWB. Performed the experiments: DWW TMC LL LCT PJG. Analyzed the data: DWW EAE SM JWB. Wrote the manuscript: DWW. Edited the manuscript: TMC LL LCT PJG EAE SM JWB.