About the Authors

Brent Race

Contributed equally to this work with: Brent Race, Kimberly Meade-White

Affiliation Laboratory of Persistent Virus Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Kimberly Meade-White

Contributed equally to this work with: Brent Race, Kimberly Meade-White

Affiliation Laboratory of Persistent Virus Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Michael B. A. Oldstone

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, California, United States of America

Richard Race

Affiliation Laboratory of Persistent Virus Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Bruce Chesebro

bchesebro@nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Persistent Virus Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BR KMW MBAO RR BC. Performed the experiments: BR KMW. Analyzed the data: BR KMW BC. Wrote the paper: BR KMW BC.