About the Authors

Mobin A. Karimi

mkarimi@mail.med.upenn.edu

Affiliations Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Eric Lee

Affiliation Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael H. Bachmann

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ana Maria Salicioni

Affiliation Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Edward M. Behrens

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Taku Kambayashi

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Cynthia L. Baldwin

Affiliation Department of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAK CL MHB. Performed the experiments: MAK EL AMS. Analyzed the data: MAK TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLB TK. Wrote the paper: MAK TK. Statistical analysis: EMB.