About the Authors

Patricia Fabian

patricia_fabian@uml.edu

Affiliations Work Environment Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James J. McDevitt

Affiliations Work Environment Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wesley H. DeHaan

Affiliation Pulmatrix Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rita O. P. Fung

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Benjamin J. Cowling

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Kwok Hung Chan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong and Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Gabriel M. Leung

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Donald K. Milton

Affiliations Work Environment Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF JJM WHD GML DKM. Performed the experiments: PF ROF BJC. Analyzed the data: PF JJM DKM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WHD KHC. Wrote the paper: PF JJM DKM.