About the Authors
- Valentine U. Chukwuma
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Mark D. Hicar
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Current address: Departments of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Xuemin Chen
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Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Katherine J. Nicholas
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Amanda Joyner
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Spyros A. Kalams
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Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Gary Landucci
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Donald N. Forthal
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
- Paul W. Spearman
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Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- James E. Crowe Jr
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* E-mail: james.crowe@vanderbilt.edu
Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VUC MDH JEC. Performed the experiments: VUC MDH JEC XC PS AJ GL DNF KJN SK. Analyzed the data: VUC MDH JEC XC PS AJ GL DNF KJN SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK. Wrote the paper: VUC MDH JEC.