Distinct roles for type I and type III interferons in virulent human metapneumovirus pathogenesis

• Yu Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Zhang, Jiuyang Xu

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Jiuyang Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Zhang, Jiuyang Xu

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Tsinghua University School of Medicine, Beijing, China

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• Margot Miranda-Katz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Jorna Sojati,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Sharon J. Tollefson,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Michelle L. Manni,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• John F. Alcorn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Saumendra N. Sarkar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• John V. Williams

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jvw@pitt.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Institute for Infection, Inflammation, and Immunity in Children, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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