About the Authors

William G. C Horsnell

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Antony J Cutler

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Claire J Hoving

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Helen Mearns

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Elmarie Myburgh

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Berenice Arendse

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Fred D Finkelman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Gary K Owens

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Dave Erle

Affiliation Lung Biology Center, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Frank Brombacher

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fbrombac@uctgsh1.uct.ac.za

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

WGCH and FB conceived and designed the experiments. WGCH, AJC, CJH, HM, EM, and BA performed the experiments. WGCH, AJC, and CJH analyzed the data. FDF, GKO, and DE contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. WGCH and AJC wrote the paper.