About the Authors

Timothy J. Pianta

timothy.pianta@nh.org.au

Affiliations Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Zoltan H. Endre

Affiliations Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand

John W. Pickering

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand

Nicholas A. Buckley

Affiliation Clinical Pharmacology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Philip W. Peake

Affiliation Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJP ZHE JWP NAB PWP. Performed the experiments: TJP PWP. Analyzed the data: TJP ZHE JWP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJP ZHE JWP NAB. Wrote the paper: TJP ZHE JWP NAB PWP.