About the Authors

W. Joost Wiersinga

w.j.wiersinga@amc.uva.nl

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Catharina W. Wieland

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Joris J. T. H. Roelofs

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Tom van der Poll

Affiliations Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJW CWW JJTHR TvdP. Performed the experiments: WJW CWW. Analyzed the data: WJW JJTHR TvdP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJW JJTHR TvdP. Wrote the paper: WJW CWW TvdP.