About the Authors
- Xiao-Song He
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Song He, Tyson H. Holmes
* E-mail: xiaosong@Stanford.edu
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Tyson H. Holmes
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xiao-Song He, Tyson H. Holmes
Affiliation Department of Health Research and Policy (Biostatistics), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Sanae Sasaki
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Maria C. Jaimes
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Current address: BD Biosciences, San Jose, California, United States of America
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- George W. Kemble
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Affiliation MedImmune Vaccines, Mountain View, California, United States of America
- Cornelia L. Dekker
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Ann M. Arvin
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Harry B. Greenberg
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
G. W. Kemble is an employee of MedImmune Vaccines, the manufacturer of LAIV used in this study.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HG AA XH. Performed the experiments: XH SS MJ. Analyzed the data: TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK. Wrote the paper: HG AA XH TH CD. Other: Directed the study: HG AA. Directed the clinical core: CD. Provided HAI data: GK. Designed the data analysis strategy: TH.