About the Authors

James C Charity

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michelle M Costante-Hamm

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Emmy L Balon

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dana H Boyd

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric J Rubin

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Simon L Dove

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: simon.dove@childrens.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JCC and SLD conceived and designed the experiments. JCC and MMCH performed the experiments. JCC, MMCH, and SLD analyzed the data. ELB, DHB, and EJR contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. JCC, MMCH, ELB, EJR, and SLD wrote the paper.