About the Authors

Magdia De Jesus

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Gary R. Ostroff

Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stuart M. Levitz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Toni R. Bartling

Affiliation College of Nanoscale Sciences and Engineering, State University of New York, Albany, New York, United States of America

Nicholas J. Mantis

nmantis@wadsworth.org

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDJ NJM. Performed the experiments: MDJ. Analyzed the data: MDJ NJM TRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GRO SML TRB. Wrote the paper: MDJ NJM.