About the Authors

Herman F. Staats

herman.staats@duke.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jeffrey R. Fielhauer

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Afton L. Thompson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Alice A. Tripp

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ashley E. Sobel

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Massimo Maddaloni

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Soman N. Abraham

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David W. Pascual

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HFS SNA DWP. Performed the experiments: HFS ALT JRF AAT AES MM. Analyzed the data: HFS ALT JRF AES AAT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM DWP SNA. Wrote the paper: HFS JRF SNA DWP.