A primary nasopharyngeal three-dimensional air-liquid interface cell culture model of the pseudostratified epithelium reveals differential donor- and cell type-specific susceptibility to Epstein-Barr virus infection

• Phillip Ziegler,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0389-986X

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• Yarong Tian,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Yulong Bai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-3742

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• Sanna Abrahamsson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Alan Bäckerholm,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8590-1195

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• Alex S. Reznik,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8993-8617

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• Anthony Green,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation University of Pittsburgh Research Histology Services, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• John A. Moore,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation UPMC Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7599-0203

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• Stella E. Lee,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UPMC Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6563-6606

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• Michael M. Myerburg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1417-2906

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• Hyun Jung Park,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Ka-Wei Tang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Region Västra Götaland, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1189-5092

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• Kathy Ho Yen Shair

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kas361@pitt.edu

  Affiliations Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9556-1745

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