About the Authors
- Girish Neelakanta
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Girish Neelakanta, Xin Li
Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Xin Li
-
Contributed equally to this work with: Girish Neelakanta, Xin Li
Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Utpal Pal
-
¤ Current address: Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America
Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Xianzhong Liu
-
Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Deborah S Beck
-
Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Kathleen DePonte
-
Affiliation Section of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Durland Fish
-
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Fred S Kantor
-
Affiliation Section of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Erol Fikrig
-
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: erol.fikrig@yale.edu
Affiliations Section of Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America , Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
G. Neelakanta, X. Li, F. Kantor, and E. Fikrig conceived and designed the experiments. G. Neelakanta, X. Li, U. Pal, X. Liu, D. Beck, and K. DePonte performed the experiments. G. Neelakanta, X. Li, U. Pal, F. Kantor, and E. Fikrig analyzed the data. G. Neelakanta and D. Fish contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. X. Li and E. Fikrig wrote the paper.