About the Authors

Tim J. Schuijt

Contributed equally to this work with: Tim J. Schuijt, Sukanya Narasimhan

T.J.Schuijt@amc.uva.nl

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Sukanya Narasimhan

Contributed equally to this work with: Tim J. Schuijt, Sukanya Narasimhan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Sirlei Daffre

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Departamento de Parasitologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Kathleen DePonte

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Joppe W. R. Hovius

Affiliation Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cornelis van't Veer

Affiliation Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tom van der Poll

Affiliation Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kamran Bakhtiari

Affiliation Department of Experimental Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Joost C. M. Meijers

Affiliation Department of Experimental Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Eric T. Boder

Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular of Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Alje P. van Dam

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Erol Fikrig

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJS SN SD CvV JCMM EF. Performed the experiments: TJS SN SD KD KB. Analyzed the data: TJS SN SD JWRH CvV KB JCMM APvD EF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ETB JCMM TvdP. Wrote the paper: TJS SN EF.