About the Authors

Matteo Porotto

Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo Porotto, Feng Yi

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Feng Yi

Contributed equally to this work with: Matteo Porotto, Feng Yi

Affiliation Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Anne Moscona

anm2047@med.cornell.edu (AM); david.lavan@nist.gov (DL)

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

David A. LaVan

anm2047@med.cornell.edu (AM); david.lavan@nist.gov (DL)

Affiliation Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: AM serves on advisory boards or as a consultant for Medimmune, GlaxoSmithKline, and Roche, and has received minor funding in partial support of a project from NexBio. MP has received minor funding in partial support of a project from NexBio. DL and FY have no competing interests to report. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL AM MP FY. Performed the experiments: MP FY. Analyzed the data: DL AM MP FY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL AM MP FY. Wrote the paper: DL AM MP FY.