About the Authors
- Maria Carmen Cenit
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Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Carmen Cenit, Mario Martínez-Florensa
Affiliation Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Granada, Spain
- Mario Martínez-Florensa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Carmen Cenit, Mario Martínez-Florensa
Affiliations ImmunNovative Developments, Barcelona, Spain, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Marta Consuegra
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Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Lizette Bonet
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Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Elena Carnero-Montoro
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Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Noelia Armiger
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Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Miguel Caballero-Baños
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona; Barcelona, Spain
- Maria Teresa Arias
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona; Barcelona, Spain
- Daniel Benitez
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Affiliation Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- Norberto Ortego-Centeno
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clínico San Cecilio, Granada, Spain
- Enrique de Ramón
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain
- José Mario Sabio
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
- Francisco J. García–Hernández
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain
- Carles Tolosa
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain
- Ana Suárez
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Affiliation Department of Functional Biology, Immunology Area, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Miguel A. González-Gay
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Santander, Spain
- Elena Bosch
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Affiliation Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Javier Martín
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¶These authors are co-senior authors on this work.
Affiliation Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Granada, Spain
- Francisco Lozano
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* E-mail: flozano@clinic.ub.es
¶These authors are co-senior authors on this work.
Affiliations Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Immunology, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona; Barcelona, Spain, Departament de Biologia Cel·lular, Immunologia i Neurociencies, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Competing Interests
The authors declare that Mario Martínez-Florensa is employed by a commercial company (ImmunNovative Developments). This does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FL JM EB MAGG AS CT FJGH JMS ER NOC. Performed the experiments: MCC MMF MC LB ECM NA MCB MTA DB EB. Analyzed the data: MCC MMF JM FL EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FL JM DB EB MAGG AS CT FJGH JMS ER NOC. Wrote the paper: MCC MMF LB JM FL MAGG EB.