About the Authors

Lisa C. Lindesmith

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa C. Lindesmith, Martina Beltramello

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Martina Beltramello

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa C. Lindesmith, Martina Beltramello

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Eric F. Donaldson

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Davide Corti

Affiliations Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland, Humabs Biomed SA, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Jesica Swanstrom

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Kari Debbink

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Antonio Lanzavecchia

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Ralph S. Baric

rbaric@ad.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, 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: LCL MB EFD AL RSB. Performed the experiments: LCL MB EFD DC JS. Analyzed the data: LCL MB EFD DC RSB AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KD AL MB DC. Wrote the paper: LCL EFD RSB.