About the Authors

W. Joost Wiersinga

w.j.wiersinga@amc.uva.nl

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine (CEMM), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Thierry Calandra

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Liesbeth M. Kager

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine (CEMM), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gerritje J. W. van der Windt

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine (CEMM), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Thierry Roger

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Didier le Roy

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Sandrine Florquin

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

Sharon J. Peacock

Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Center for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Fred C. G. J. Sweep

Affiliation Chemical Endocrinology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Tom van der Poll

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine (CEMM), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJW TC TR DlR SJP TvdP. Performed the experiments: WJW LMK GJWvdW FCGJS. Analyzed the data: WJW TC LMK GJWvdW SF SJP FCGJS TvdP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJW TC TR DlR SF SJP FCGJS TvdP. Wrote the paper: WJW TC SJP FCGJS TvdP.