About the Authors
- Chad Steele
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: chad.steele@chp.edu
Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Rekha R Rapaka
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Allison Metz
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Shannon M Pop
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- David L Williams
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
- Siamon Gordon
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Affiliation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Jay K Kolls
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Gordon D Brown
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Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
CS, RRR, AM, and SMP performed the experiments. CS, SMP, and GDB analyzed the data. CS, RRR, DLW, SG, JKK, and GDB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. CS conceived and designed the experiments, and wrote the paper.