Ficolin-2 binds to serotype 35B pneumococcus as it does to serotypes 11A and 31, and these serotypes cause more infections in older adults than in children

• K. Aaron Geno,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Brady L. Spencer,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Immunology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado-Anschutz, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Sejong Bae,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Moon H. Nahm

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nahm@uab.edu

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6922-1042

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