About the Authors

James C. Charity

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

LeeAnn T. Blalock

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 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

Dennis L. Kasper

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Simon L. Dove

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

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCC LTB SLD. Performed the experiments: JCC LTB MCH. Analyzed the data: JCC LTB DLK SLD. Wrote the paper: JCC SLD.