The Long and Winding Road (Apologies to the Beatles)

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About the Authors

Hank Seifert

* E-mail: h-seifert@northwestern.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University—Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

The author declares that no competing interests exist.

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