About the Authors

Régine Audran

Affiliation Division of Immunology and Allergy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Floriana Lurati-Ruiz

Affiliation Division of Immunology and Allergy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Blaise Genton

Affiliation Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, Policlinique Médicale Universitaire, Lausanne, Switzerland

Hildur E. Blythman

Affiliation Formerly RMF Dictagene S.A, Lausanne, Switzerland

Opokua Ofori-Anyinam

Affiliation GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium

Christophe Reymond

Affiliation Formerly RMF Dictagene S.A, Lausanne, Switzerland

Giampietro Corradin

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland

François Spertini

Francois.Spertini@chuv.ch

Affiliation Division of Immunology and Allergy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

HE Blythman and Christophe Reymond were employees of RMF Dictagene at the time of the study was performed. Since this time, RMF Dictagene went bankrupt. O.Ofori-Anyinam was an employee of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals. No other conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RA FLR BG HEB OOA CR GC FS. Performed the experiments: RA FLR. Analyzed the data: RA FLR BG HEB GC FS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RA FLR. Wrote the paper: RA FLR FS. Reviewed the paper: BG HEB OOA CR GC.