About the Authors

Ali Azizi

aazizi@uottawa.ca

Affiliations Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research Center, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ashok Kumar

Affiliations Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research Center, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Francisco Diaz-Mitoma

Affiliations Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research Center, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jiri Mestecky

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Institute of Immunology and Microbiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Institute of Microbiology, Department of Immunology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.