About the Authors

Daniel Nilsson

Affiliations Division of ENT Diseases, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Biomedicine, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden

Anand Kumar Andiappan

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore, Singapore

Christer Halldén

Affiliation Biomedicine, Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Sweden

Chew Fook Tim

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Torbjörn Säll

Affiliation Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

De Yun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: De Yun Wang, Lars-Olaf Cardell

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Lars-Olaf Cardell

Contributed equally to this work with: De Yun Wang, Lars-Olaf Cardell

lars-olaf.cardell@ki.se

Affiliation Division of ENT Diseases, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DN CH LOC. Analyzed the data: DN TS CFT AKA. Wrote the paper: DN CH TS LOC. Performed recruitment of subjects and clinical examinations of patients: LOC DYW. Critically revised the manuscript and approved the final form of the manuscript: LOC DN AKA CH CFT TS DYW.