About the Authors

Jennifer M. Bell

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer M. Bell, Ashley Agus, Fiona Lynn

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Michael D. Shields

m.shields@qub.ac.uk

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Ashley Agus

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer M. Bell, Ashley Agus, Fiona Lynn

Affiliation Northern Ireland Clinical Trial Unit, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Kathryn Dunlop

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Ulster Hospital Dundonald, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Thomas Bourke

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Frank Kee

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health (NI), School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Fiona Lynn

Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer M. Bell, Ashley Agus, Fiona Lynn

Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMB FL. Performed the experiments: JMB AA FL. Analyzed the data: JMB AA FL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDS KD TB FK. Wrote the paper: JMB MDS KD FK FL.