About the Authors

Brady L. Spencer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Uday Tak

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Biochemistry, Boulder, CO, United States of America

Affiliation University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Microbiology, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jéssica C. Mendonça

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Rio de Janeiro State University, Roberto Alcântara Gomes Biology Institute, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Prescilla E. Nagao

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rio de Janeiro State University, Roberto Alcântara Gomes Biology Institute, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Michael Niederweis

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Microbiology, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Kelly S. Doran

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kelly.doran@cuanschutz.edu

Affiliation University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.