About the Authors

Michael L. Litvack

Affiliations Lung Innate Immunity Research Laboratory, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Physiology and Experimental Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Martin Post

Affiliations Physiology and Experimental Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Nades Palaniyar

nades.palaniyar@sickkids.ca

Affiliations Lung Innate Immunity Research Laboratory, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Physiology and Experimental Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLL NP. Performed the experiments: MLL NP. Analyzed the data: MLL NP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NP MP. Wrote the paper: MLL NP MP. Principal investigator: NP.