About the Authors
- Lisa C Lindesmith
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa C Lindesmith, Eric F Donaldson
Affiliation University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Eric F Donaldson
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Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa C Lindesmith, Eric F Donaldson
Affiliation University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Anna D LoBue
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Affiliation University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jennifer L Cannon
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Affiliations University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Du-Ping Zheng
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Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Jan Vinje
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Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Ralph S Baric
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ralph_baric@unc.edu
Affiliation University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
RSB designed the study and contributed to the writing of the paper. LCL designed the study, collected and analyzed the data, and contributed to the writing of the paper. EFD, ADL, and DPZ collected data, performed experiments, analyzed the data, and contributed to the writing of the paper. JLC collected data, performed experiments, and contributed to the writing of the paper. JV contributed to the writing of the paper.