About the Authors

W. Joost Wiersinga

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: w.j.wiersinga@amc.uva.nl

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands , Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Catharina W Wieland

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands , Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Mark C Dessing

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands , Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Narisara Chantratita

Affiliation Wellcome Trust, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Allen C Cheng

Affiliation Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia

Direk Limmathurotsakul

Affiliation Wellcome Trust, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Wirongrong Chierakul

Affiliation Wellcome Trust, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Masja Leendertse

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands , Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sandrine Florquin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alex F de Vos

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands , Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Nicholas White

Affiliations Wellcome Trust, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand , Center for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

Arjen M Dondorp

Affiliation Wellcome Trust, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Nicholas P Day

Affiliations Wellcome Trust, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand , Center for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

Sharon J Peacock

Affiliations Wellcome Trust, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand , Center for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

Tom van der Poll

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands , Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

WJW, CWW, NC, ACC, WC, AFdV, AMD, NPD, SJP, and TvdP designed the study. WJW, MCD, ML, and SF analysed the data. WJW, ACC, DL, and SJP enrolled patients. WJW, NC, ACC, DL, WC, AFdV, NW, AMD, NPD, SJP, and TvdP contributed to writing the paper. CWW and NC collected data or performed experiments for this study. MCD performed the MLPA technique and data analysis as mentioned in section “RNA analysis using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification.” DL recruited patients with sepsis caused by B. pseudomallei at Sapprasithiprasong Hospital, Ubon Radchathnai, northeastern Thailand, and collected the clinical data and blood specimens for the study. ML performed some of the ex vivo and in vitro experiments. NW helped organize the clinical study.