About the Authors

Safder S. Ganaie

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Wei Zou

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Peng Xu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Xuefeng Deng

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Steve Kleiboeker

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Viracor Eurofins Laboratories, Lee’s Summit, Missouri, United States of America

Jianming Qiu

jqiu@kumc.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

SK is employed at and holds share to Viracor Eurofins Laboratories. The other authors declare no competing financial interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SSG JQ. Data curation: SSG WZ PX. Formal analysis: SSG. Funding acquisition: JQ. Investigation: SSG WZ PX. Methodology: SSG XD. Resources: SK. Supervision: JQ SK. Validation: SSG WZ PX. Visualization: SSG WZ PX. Writing – original draft: SSG JQ. Writing – review & editing: SSG JQ WZ PX SK XD.