About the Authors
- Anuradha Chowdhary
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* E-mail: dranuradha@hotmail.com
Affiliation Department of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
- Shallu Kathuria
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Affiliation Department of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
- Jianping Xu
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Affiliation Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Cheshta Sharma
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Affiliation Department of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
- Gandhi Sundar
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Affiliation Department of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
- Pradeep Kumar Singh
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Affiliation Department of Medical Mycology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
- Shailendra N. Gaur
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Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
- Ferry Hagen
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Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Corné H. Klaassen
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Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Jacques F. Meis
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Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
J.F. Meis received grants from Astellas, Merck, Schering-Plough, Gilead and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, is a consultant to Basilea and Merck and received speaker’s fees from Merck, Schering-Plough, Gilead and Janssen Pharmaceutica. C.H. Klaassen received a grant from Pfizer. J.P. Xu received grants from NSERC of Canada. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AC JPX JFM. Performed the experiments: AC SK CS GS PKS FH CHK. Analyzed the data: AC SK JPX FH CHK JFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC SNG JPX FH. Wrote the paper: AC SK JPX CHK JFM.