About the Authors

Anne H. Rowley

*E-mail: a-rowley@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, The Center for Kawasaki Disease, The Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Susan C. Baker

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Stanford T. Shulman

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, The Center for Kawasaki Disease, The Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Francesca L. Garcia

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, The Center for Kawasaki Disease, The Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Linda M. Fox

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Ian M. Kos

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, The Center for Kawasaki Disease, The Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Susan E. Crawford

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Pierre A. Russo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rashid Hammadeh

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

Kei Takahashi

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Jan M. Orenstein

Affiliation Department of Pathology, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JO SB AR SS LF SC. Performed the experiments: JO AR FG LF IK RH. Analyzed the data: JO SB AR SS FG LF IK SC PR RH KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR PR RH KT. Wrote the paper: JO SB AR SS FG LF IK SC PR KT.