About the Authors

Hong You

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Donald P. McManus

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Wei Hu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Microbial Engineering, School of Life Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Michael J. Smout

Affiliation Queensland Tropical Health Alliance and Centre for Biodiscovery and Molecular Development of Therapeutics at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

Paul J. Brindley

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, and Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Geoffrey N. Gobert

Geoffrey.Gobert@qimr.edu.au

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GNG HY DPM PJB. Performed the experiments: HY WH. Analyzed the data: GNG HY MJS DPM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY GNG DPM MJS WH. Wrote the paper: GNG HY DPM PJB MJS.