About the Authors

Joseph A. Politch

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

politch@bu.edu, joseph.politch@bmc.org

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Susan Cu-Uvin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Thomas R. Moench

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Karen T. Tashima

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Jai G. Marathe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kate M. Guthrie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Howard Cabral

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tara Nyhuis

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Miles Brennan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Larry Zeitlin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Hans M. L. Spiegel

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kelly Government Solutions, Contractor to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Kenneth H. Mayer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kevin J. Whaley

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Deborah J. Anderson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: KJW and LZ own Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., a company that intends to commercialize antibody-based products. TRM, TN and MB work for Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.