About the Authors

J. R. Anderson

Affiliation Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, NG5 1PB, United Kingdom

K. Mortimer

kevin.mortimer@lstmed.ac.uk

Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK and Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Fazakerley, United Kingdom

L. Pang

Affiliation Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, NG5 1PB, United Kingdom

K. M Smith

Affiliation Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, NG5 1PB, United Kingdom

H. Bailey

Affiliation Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, NG5 1PB, United Kingdom

D. B. Hodgson

Affiliation Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, NG5 1PB, United Kingdom

D. E. Shaw

Affiliation Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, NG5 1PB, United Kingdom

A. J. Knox

Affiliation Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, NG5 1PB, United Kingdom

T. W. Harrison

Affiliation Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham, NG5 1PB, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AK TH LP KM. Data curation: JA AK TH LP KM DH DS. Formal analysis: JA AK TH LP KM DH DS. Funding acquisition: KM AK TH LP JA DH DS. Investigation: JA AK TH LP KM DH DS. Methodology: AK TH LP KM JA. Project administration: JA KS HB DH. Resources: AK TH. Supervision: TH AK KM. Validation: JA KS HB. Writing – original draft: JA AK TH LP KM. Writing – review & editing: JA AK TH LP KM DH DS.