About the Authors

Aziz Hamadah

Affiliation The Ottawa Hospital Blood and Marrow Programme, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Yoko Schreiber

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Baldwin Toye

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Sheryl McDiarmid

Affiliation The Ottawa Hospital Blood and Marrow Programme, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Lothar Huebsch

Affiliation The Ottawa Hospital Blood and Marrow Programme, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Christopher Bredeson

Affiliation The Ottawa Hospital Blood and Marrow Programme, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jason Tay

jtay@ottawahospital.on.ca

Affiliation The Ottawa Hospital Blood and Marrow Programme, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH LH JT. Performed the experiments: AH YS. Analyzed the data: AH YS BT SM LH CB JT. Wrote the paper: AH YS BT SM LH CB JT.