About the Authors
- Timothy Sheahan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy Sheahan, Thomas E. Morrison
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Thomas E. Morrison
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Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy Sheahan, Thomas E. Morrison
Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Vaccine Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- William Funkhouser
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Satoshi Uematsu
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Affiliation WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Laboratory of Host Defense, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Shizou Akira
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Affiliation WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Laboratory of Host Defense, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Ralph S. Baric
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* E-mail: rbaric@email.unc.edu (RSB); heisem@med.unc.edu (MTH)
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Mark T. Heise
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* E-mail: rbaric@email.unc.edu (RSB); heisem@med.unc.edu (MTH)
Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Vaccine Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TS TEM RSB MTH. Performed the experiments: TS TEM. Analyzed the data: TS TEM WF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SU SA. Wrote the paper: TS TEM WF RSB MTH.