About the Authors

Anja Scholzen

Anja.Scholzen@med.monash.edu.au (AS); Magdalena.Plebanski@med.monash.edu.au (MP)

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Monash University, Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Diana Mittag

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Monash University, Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, Melbourne, Australia

Stephen J. Rogerson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Brian M. Cooke

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

Magdalena Plebanski

Anja.Scholzen@med.monash.edu.au (AS); Magdalena.Plebanski@med.monash.edu.au (MP)

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Monash University, Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS MP. Performed the experiments: AS DM. Analyzed the data: AS DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BMC MP. Wrote the paper: AS MP. Critically discussed data interpretation: AS DM SJR MP. Performed quantitative real-time RT-PCR analysis: DM. Edited the paper: DM SJR BMC.