About the Authors

Fengwei Bai

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, L2 Diagnostics, LLC, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Terrence Town

Contributed equally to this work with: Terrence Town, Feng Qian

Affiliations Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Departments of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Sciences, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Feng Qian

Contributed equally to this work with: Terrence Town, Feng Qian

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Penghua Wang

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Masahito Kamanaka

Affiliation Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Tarah M. Connolly

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David Gate

Affiliation Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Ruth R. Montgomery

Affiliation Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Richard A. Flavell

Affiliations Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Erol Fikrig

erol.fikrig@yale.edu

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 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

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB EF. Performed the experiments: FB TT FQ PW DG. Analyzed the data: FB TT FQ PW EF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FB MK TMC RRM RAF EF. Wrote the paper: FB TT EF.