About the Authors

Petrus R. de Jong

Contributed equally to this work with: Petrus R. de Jong, Alvin W. L. Schadenberg, Berent J. Prakken, Nicolaas J. G. Jansen

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Deptartment of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Alvin W. L. Schadenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Petrus R. de Jong, Alvin W. L. Schadenberg, Berent J. Prakken, Nicolaas J. G. Jansen

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Deptartment of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Theo van den Broek

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Deptartment of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jeffrey M. Beekman

Affiliation Department of Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Femke van Wijk

Affiliation Deptartment of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Paul J. Coffer

Affiliations Deptartment of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Berent J. Prakken

Contributed equally to this work with: Petrus R. de Jong, Alvin W. L. Schadenberg, Berent J. Prakken, Nicolaas J. G. Jansen

Affiliation Deptartment of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Nicolaas J. G. Jansen

Contributed equally to this work with: Petrus R. de Jong, Alvin W. L. Schadenberg, Berent J. Prakken, Nicolaas J. G. Jansen

n.j.g.jansen@umcutrecht.nl

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJP PJC FvW JMB NJGJ. Performed the experiments: PRdJ AWLS TvdB. Analyzed the data: PRdJ AWLS BJP NJGJ. Wrote the paper: PRdJ AWLS JMB FvW PJC BJP NJGJ.