About the Authors
- Kenny D. Kronforst
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Affiliations Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Christy J. Mancuso
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Matthew Pettengill
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Affiliations Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jana Ninkovic
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Affiliations Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Melanie R. Power Coombs
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Affiliation Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Chad Stevens
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Michael Otto
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Affiliation Pathogen Molecular Genetics Section, Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Carina Mallard
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Affiliation Physiology, The University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Xiaoyang Wang
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Affiliation Physiology, The University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Donald Goldmann
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Affiliations Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ofer Levy
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* E-mail: ofer.levy@childrens.harvard.edu
Affiliations Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist, with the exception of OL who served as a consultant to MedImmune, Biosynexus, and Opsona Therapeutics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KK CM MP MRPC OL. Performed the experiments: KK CJM MP CS JN. Analyzed the data: KK CJM MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRPC MO OL. Wrote the paper: KK CJM OL JN. Intellectually contributed to the manuscript: JN CM DG MO XW.