About the Authors

Ning Wang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Lennart Truedsson

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Section of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Kerstin Elvin

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Clinical Immunology and Allergy Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Bengt A. Andersson

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Johan Rönnelid

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Lucia Mincheva-Nilsson

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Annica Lindkvist

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Jonas F. Ludvigsson

Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Pediatrics, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

Lennart Hammarström

Lennart.Hammarstrom@ki.se (LH); Charlotte.Dahle@lio.se (CD)

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Charlotte Dahle

Lennart.Hammarstrom@ki.se (LH); Charlotte.Dahle@lio.se (CD)

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NW CD LH. Performed the experiments: NW CD. Analyzed the data: NW CD AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LT KE BA JR LM-N JL. Wrote the paper: NW CD LH.