About the Authors

Mark Spears

mark.spears@glasgow.ac.uk

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Charles McSharry

Affiliation Immunology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Rekha Chaudhuri

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Christopher J. Weir

Affiliations Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Edinburgh Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Methodology Hub, Public Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Carl de Wet

Affiliation NHS Education for Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Neil C. Thomson

Affiliation Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS CM RC CJW NCT. Performed the experiments: MS CM RC. Analyzed the data: MS CdW CJW. Wrote the paper: MS CM RC CJW CdW NCT.