About the Authors

Francisco de Borja Callejas

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER of Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain

Asunción Martínez-Antón

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER of Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain

Isam Alobid

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, Rhinology Unit & Smell Clinic, ENT Department, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Mireya Fuentes

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER of Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain

Julio Cortijo

Affiliation CIBER of Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain

César Picado

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER of Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain, Pneumology & Respiratory Allergy Department, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Jordi Roca-Ferrer

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordi Roca-Ferrer, Joaquim Mullol

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER of Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain

Joaquim Mullol

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordi Roca-Ferrer, Joaquim Mullol

jmullol@clinic.ub.es

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Respiratory Immunoallergy, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain, CIBER of Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain, Rhinology Unit & Smell Clinic, ENT Department, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FBC AM JR JM. Performed the experiments: FBC MF. Analyzed the data: FBC AM JC CP JR JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IA MF. Wrote the paper: FBC AM JR JM. Provision of study material or patients: IA. Final approval of manuscript: CP JR JM.