About the Authors

Alicja Puchta

Contributed equally to this work with: Alicja Puchta, Avee Naidoo

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Avee Naidoo

Contributed equally to this work with: Alicja Puchta, Avee Naidoo

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Chris P. Verschoor

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Dessi Loukov

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Netusha Thevaranjan

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Talveer S. Mandur

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Phuong-son Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Manel Jordana

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Mark Loeb

Affiliations Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Zhou Xing

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Lester Kobzik

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maggie J. Larché

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Dawn M. E. Bowdish

bowdish@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMEB LK AP AN CPV. Performed the experiments: AP AN CPV DL TSM NT PsN. Analyzed the data: AP AN CPV LK PsN DMEB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJL ZX ML MJ. Wrote the paper: AP AN DMEB.