About the Authors

Shikha Malhotra

Contributed equally to this work with: Shikha Malhotra, Judy Y. Yen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Judy Y. Yen

Contributed equally to this work with: Shikha Malhotra, Judy Y. Yen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anna N. Honko

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Sara Garamszegi

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ignacio S. Caballero

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joshua C. Johnson

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Eric M. Mucker

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

John C. Trefry

Affiliation U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Lisa E. Hensley

Affiliations U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America, Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Division of Clinical Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

John H. Connor

jhconnor@bu.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JHC LEH ANH. Performed the experiments: JYY ANH JCJ JCT EMM. Analyzed the data: SM JYY SG ISC. Wrote the paper: SM JHC ANH.