About the Authors
- Malcolm G. Semple
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Contributed equally to this work with: Malcolm G. Semple, Puja R. Myles
* E-mail: m.g.semple@liverpool.ac.uk
Affiliation Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Puja R. Myles
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Contributed equally to this work with: Malcolm G. Semple, Puja R. Myles
Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Karl G. Nicholson
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, United Kingdom
- Wei Shen Lim
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Robert C. Read
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Affiliation Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Bruce L. Taylor
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Affiliation Department of Critical Care, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
- Stephen J. Brett
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Affiliation Centre for Peri-operative Medicine and Critical Care Research, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Peter J. M. Openshaw
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Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Infections, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Joanne E. Enstone
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- James McMenamin
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Affiliation Health Protection Scotland, NHS National Services, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Barbara Bannister
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Department, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Dr. Malcolm Gracie Semple is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. MGS and BB are advisors to the Department of Health and Health Protection Agency, England. PRM has received an unrestricted educational grant from Roche to conduct research in the area of pandemic influenza. However, the submitted paper is one work that is independent of this grant. JSNVT has received funding to attend influenza related meetings, lecture and consultancy fees and research funding from several influenza antiviral drug and vaccine manufacturers. All forms of personal remuneration ceased in September 2010, but research funding from GlaxoSmithKline, Astra-Zeneca and F Hoffmann-La Roche is on-going. He is a former employee of SmithKline Beecham plc. (now GlaxoSmithKline), Roche Products Ltd (UK) and Aventis-Pasteur MSD (now Sanofi-Pasteur MSD), all prior to 2005, with no remaining pecuniary interests by way of share holdings, share options and pension rights. WSL has received unrestricted research funding from Wyeth for an unrelated study of pneumococcal pneumonia. KGN, SJB, JEE, JM, PJMO, RCR, BLT have declared that no competing interests exist. None of the research funding for this particular study was from any of the several manufacturers mentioned or from GlaxoSmithKline, Astra-Zeneca and F Hoffmann-La Roche. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MGS PRM. Performed the experiments: PRM MGS. Analyzed the data: PRM MGS JSNVT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGS PRM KGN WSL RCR BLT SJB PJMO JEE JM BB JSNVT. Wrote the paper: MGS PRM BB JSNVT KGN WSL RCR BLT SJB PJMO JEE JM. Guarantors: MGS PRM.