About the Authors
- Ben Morton
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* E-mail: ben.morton@lstmed.ac.uk
Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpoool, United Kingdom, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Shankara Nagaraja
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Affiliation Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Andrea Collins
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpoool, United Kingdom, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Shaun H. Pennington
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpoool, United Kingdom
- John D. Blakey
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Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpoool, United Kingdom, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
BM received a lecture fee from Grifols Inc. AC received lecture fees from GSK and Merck. These affiliations do not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BM SN. Performed the experiments: BM SN SHP. Analyzed the data: BM SHP AC JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BM SHP. Wrote the paper: BM SHP AC JB.