About the Authors

Berna Atik

Affiliation Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Troy A. Skwor

Affiliation Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Ram Prasad Kandel

Affiliation Lumbini Rana-Ambika Eye Hospital, Bhairahawa, Nepal

Bassant Sharma

Affiliation Lumbini Rana-Ambika Eye Hospital, Bhairahawa, Nepal

Him Kant Adhikari

Affiliation Lumbini Rana-Ambika Eye Hospital, Bhairahawa, Nepal

Lori Steiner

Affiliation Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, California, United States of America

Henry Erlich

Affiliations Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, California, United States of America, HLA Laboratory, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Deborah Dean

ddean@chori.org

Affiliations Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DD. Analyzed the data: BA TAS DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RPK BS HKA LS HE DD. Wrote the paper: BA TAS DD. Acquisition of data: DD RPK BS HKA. Obtained funding: DD. Supervised study: DD. Critical revision of the manuscript: HE.