About the Authors

Hailong Guo

jackguo1234@yahoo.com (HG); david_topham@urmc.rochester.edu (DJT)

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Immunology, Rochester General Hospital Research Institute, Rochester, New York, United States of America

David J. Topham

jackguo1234@yahoo.com (HG); david_topham@urmc.rochester.edu (DJT)

Affiliation New York Influenza Center of Excellence, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and the David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology, Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HG DJT. Performed the experiments: HG. Analyzed the data: HG DJT. Wrote the paper: HG DJT.