About the Authors

Erik C. Hett

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael C. Chao

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lynn L. Deng

Affiliation Department of Medicine, VA Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric J. Rubin

erubin@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EH ER. Performed the experiments: EH MC. Analyzed the data: EH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EH MC LD ER. Wrote the paper: EH.