About the Authors
- Natalie J Garton
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Contributed equally to this work with: Natalie J Garton, Simon J Waddell
Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester Medical School, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Simon J Waddell
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Contributed equally to this work with: Natalie J Garton, Simon J Waddell
Affiliation Medical Microbiology, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Anna L Sherratt
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Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester Medical School, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Su-Min Lee
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Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester Medical School, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Rebecca J Smith
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Affiliation Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester Medical School, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Claire Senner
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Affiliation Medical Microbiology, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Jason Hinds
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Affiliation Medical Microbiology, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Kumar Rajakumar
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Affiliations Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester Medical School, Leicester, United Kingdom , Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester National Health Service Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Richard A Adegbola
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia
- Gurdyal S Besra
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Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Philip D Butcher
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: butcherp@sgul.ac.uk (PDB); mrb19@le.ac.uk (MRB)
Affiliation Medical Microbiology, Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Michael R Barer
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: butcherp@sgul.ac.uk (PDB); mrb19@le.ac.uk (MRB)
Affiliations Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester Medical School, Leicester, United Kingdom , Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester National Health Service Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
NJG, SJW, RAA, PDB, and MRB designed the study, analysed results and contributed to the writing of the paper. KR and GSB contributed to the analysis of results and writing of the paper. NJG, SJW, ALS, SML, RJS, CS, and JH were involved in performing the experiments and analysing the data.