About the Authors

Anil A. Panackal

Contributed equally to this work with: Anil A. Panackal, Simone C. Wuest, Yen-Chih Lin

Affiliations Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, F. Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Simone C. Wuest

Contributed equally to this work with: Anil A. Panackal, Simone C. Wuest, Yen-Chih Lin

Affiliation Neuroimmunological Diseases Unit, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yen-Chih Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Anil A. Panackal, Simone C. Wuest, Yen-Chih Lin

Affiliation Neuroimmunological Diseases Unit, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tianxia Wu

Affiliation Neuroimmunological Diseases Unit, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nannan Zhang

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter Kosa

Affiliation Neuroimmunological Diseases Unit, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mika Komori

Affiliation Neuroimmunological Diseases Unit, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew Blake

Affiliation Neuroimmunological Diseases Unit, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sarah K. Browne

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lindsey B. Rosen

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ferry Hagen

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jacques Meis

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Stuart M. Levitz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Martha Quezado

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dima Hammoud

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Imaging, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health/Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

John E. Bennett

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bibi Bielekova

Bibi.Bielekova@nih.gov (BB); williamsonpr@mail.nih.gov (PRW)

Affiliation Neuroimmunological Diseases Unit, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter R. Williamson

Bibi.Bielekova@nih.gov (BB); williamsonpr@mail.nih.gov (PRW)

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAP SCW YCL PK MK AB BB PRW DH SKB JEB JM. Performed the experiments: AAP SCW YCL NZ PK MK AB LBR SKB TW SML MQ FH. Analyzed the data: AAP TW PRW NZ SML MQ PK MK AB LBR FH DH SKB JEB JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAP SCW YCL TW NZ SML MQ DH PK MK AB LBR SKB BB PRW. Wrote the paper: AAP SCW YCL BB PRW TW NZ SML MQ PK MK AB LBR FH DH SKB JEB JM.