About the Authors

Adam W. Plumb

Affiliation Infection, Inflammation and Immunity Research Group, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Daniel T. Patton

Affiliation Infection, Inflammation and Immunity Research Group, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jung Hee Seo

Affiliation Infection, Inflammation and Immunity Research Group, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Emma-Kate Loveday

Affiliation Infection, Inflammation and Immunity Research Group, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

François Jean

Affiliation Infection, Inflammation and Immunity Research Group, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Steven F. Ziegler

Affiliation Immunology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ninan Abraham

ninan@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliations Infection, Inflammation and Immunity Research Group, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Zoology, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AWP E-KL JHS NA. Performed the experiments: AWP DTP JHS E-KL. Analyzed the data: AWP DTP E-KL NA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FJ SFZ NA. Wrote the paper: AWP DTP NA.