About the Authors

Rodolphe Thiébaut

Contributed equally to this work with: Rodolphe Thiébaut, Julia Drylewicz

rodolphe.thiebaut@isped.u-bordeaux2.fr

Affiliations INSERM, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France, Univ. Bordeaux, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France, INRIA, SISTM team, Bordeaux, France

Julia Drylewicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Rodolphe Thiébaut, Julia Drylewicz

Affiliations Laboratory for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Mélanie Prague

Affiliations INSERM, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France, Univ. Bordeaux, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France, INRIA, SISTM team, Bordeaux, France

Christine Lacabaratz

Affiliations INSERM, Unité U955, Créteil, France, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S955 Creteil, France

Stéphanie Beq

Affiliation CYTHERIS, Issy Les Moulineaux, France

Ana Jarne

Affiliations INSERM, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France, Univ. Bordeaux, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France, INRIA, SISTM team, Bordeaux, France

Thérèse Croughs

Affiliation CYTHERIS, Issy Les Moulineaux, France

Rafick-Pierre Sekaly

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute-Florida, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Michael M. Lederman

Affiliation Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Irini Sereti

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel Commenges

Affiliations INSERM, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France, Univ. Bordeaux, ISPED, Centre INSERM U897-Epidemiologie-Biostatistique, Bordeaux, France, INRIA, SISTM team, Bordeaux, France

Yves Lévy

Affiliations INSERM, Unité U955, Créteil, France, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S955 Creteil, France, AP-HP, Groupe Henri-Mondor Albert-Chenevier, Immunologie Clinique, Creteil, France

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: TC and SB are employees and shareholders of Cytheris.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: CL SB RPS. Analyzed the data: RT JD MP AJ. Wrote the paper: RT JD MP YL CL SB AJ TC RPS MML IS. Designed clinical trials: TC RPS MML IS YL. Designed the study: RT JD DC YL.