About the Authors

Michael G. Brown

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael G. Brown, Sarah M. McAlpine

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Canadian Center for Vaccinology, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sarah M. McAlpine

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael G. Brown, Sarah M. McAlpine

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Yan Y. Huang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Canadian Center for Vaccinology, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ian D. Haidl

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Ayham Al-Afif

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Canadian Center for Vaccinology, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Jean S. Marshall

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Robert Anderson

robert.anderson@dal.ca

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Canadian Center for Vaccinology, IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGB SMM JSM RA. Performed the experiments: MGB SMM YYH IDH AA-A. Analyzed the data: SMM MGB YYH AA-A IDH JSM RA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSM RA. Wrote the paper: SMM MGB YYH IDH JSM RA.