About the Authors

Everett Clinton Smith

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, The Elizabeth B. Lamb Center for Pediatric Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Hervé Blanc

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 3015, Paris, France

Marco Vignuzzi

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 3015, Paris, France

Mark R. Denison

mark.denison@Vanderbilt.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, The Elizabeth B. Lamb Center for Pediatric Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ECS MV MRD. Performed the experiments: ECS. Analyzed the data: ECS HB. Wrote the paper: ECS MV MRD.