About the Authors
- Gerwin D. Rodenburg
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Elisabeth A. M. Sanders
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Elske J. M. van Gils
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Affiliations Department of Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Linneaus Institute, Spaarne Hospital, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
- Reinier H. Veenhoven
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Affiliation Linneaus Institute, Spaarne Hospital, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
- Tomasz Zborowski
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Germie P. J. M. van den Dobbelsteen
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Affiliation National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- Andries C. Bloem
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Guy A. M. Berbers
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Affiliation National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
- Debby Bogaert
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* E-mail: d.bogaert@umcutrecht.nl
Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
ES reports receiving unrestricted grants from Pfizer and Baxter for research, consulting fees from Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, lecture fees from Pfizer and grant support from Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline for vaccine studies. RV received research grants for pneumococcal vaccine studies from Pfizer and GSK. DB received consulting fees from Pfizer. For all other authors no potential conflicts reported. The above mentioned grants were not for this specific study. 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: ES RV DB GvdD GB. Performed the experiments: TZ AB. Analyzed the data: GR EvG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB GB GvdD. Wrote the paper: GR ES EvG RV DB GvdD GB AB.