About the Authors

Moisés Selman

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mselmanl@yahoo.com.mx

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico

Guillermo Carrillo

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico

Andrea Estrada

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico

Mayra Mejia

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico

Carina Becerril

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico

José Cisneros

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico

Miguel Gaxiola

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico

Rogelio Pérez-Padilla

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico

Carmen Navarro

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Mexico City, Mexico

Thomas Richards

Affiliation The Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Diseases, Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James Dauber

Affiliation The Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Diseases, Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Talmadge E. King Jr

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Annie Pardo

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Naftali Kaminski

Affiliation The Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Diseases, Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK TK MS GC AE MN. Performed the experiments: AP JC CB MG. Analyzed the data: TR TK MS GC AE MM RP MN. Wrote the paper: NK AP TK JD MS. Other: Patient enrollment: AE MM MN GC. HRCT evaluation and quantification of the lesions: MM. Histological evaluation: MG. Statistical analysis: RP TR.