About the Authors

Lorenzo Giacani

Contributed equally to this work with: Lorenzo Giacani, Sujay Chattopadhyay

giacal@u.washington.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sujay Chattopadhyay

Contributed equally to this work with: Lorenzo Giacani, Sujay Chattopadhyay

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Arturo Centurion-Lara

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Brendan M. Jeffrey

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Hoavan T. Le

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Barbara J. Molini

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Sheila A. Lukehart

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Evgeni V. Sokurenko

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Daniel D. Rockey

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LG ACL SAL DDR. Performed the experiments: LG BMJ BJM. Analyzed the data: LG SC ACL HTL SAL EVS DDR. Wrote the paper: LG SC ACL BMJ HTL SAL EVS.