About the Authors

Somtochukwu S. Onwah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Zhirong Mou

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Gaurav Gupta

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Patience Obi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Nnamdi Ikeogu

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Ping Jia

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Wen-Wei Zhang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Saeid Ghavami

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Ayesha Saleem

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Jude Uzonna

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jude.uzonna@umanitoba.ca

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Pathology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.