About the Authors

Andrea Rachelle C. Santos

Affiliation Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Galina Dvoriantchikova

Affiliation Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Yiwen Li

Affiliation Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Ghulam Mohammad

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Abdul Aziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ahmed M. Abu El-Asrar

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Abdul Aziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Rong Wen

Affiliation Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Dmitry Ivanov

divanov@med.miami.edu

Affiliations Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARCS GD YL GM AMAE RW DI. Performed the experiments: ARCS GD YL. Analyzed the data: ARCS YL DI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL GM AMAE RW DI. Wrote the paper: ARCS DI.