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The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website at DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03413. DNA sequences, additional experiments, and additional AFM images (PDF) Movie 2.

Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine and the Ruy V. Lourenço Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens, Rutgers University─New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07103, ...