About the Authors

Chato Taher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Jana de Boniface

Affiliation Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Abdul-Aleem Mohammad

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Piotr Religa

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Johan Hartman

Affiliation Department of Oncology-Pathology; Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Koon-Chu Yaiw

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Jan Frisell

Affiliation Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Afsar Rahbar

Contributed equally to this work with: Afsar Rahbar, Cecilia Söderberg-Naucler

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Cecilia Söderberg-Naucler

Contributed equally to this work with: Afsar Rahbar, Cecilia Söderberg-Naucler

Cecilia.Naucler@ki.se

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: CSN has received speakers fees and travel grants from Roche to present the groups data on molecular mechanisms of CMV infection at scientific meeting and at one SAB meeting for Roche and also earlier held an independent investigational grant from Roche to perform a clinical trial on anti-CMV treatment in glioblastoma patients. All this was more than 3 years ago. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Participated in correcting the manuscript: CT JD AAM PR JH KCY JF AR CSN. Conceived and designed the experiments: CT AR CSN. Performed the experiments: CT AAM. Analyzed the data: CT KCY PR JD JF JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD JF CSN. Wrote the paper: CT AR CSN JD.