About the Authors

Richard Stebbings

rstebbings@nibsc.ac.uk

Affiliation Division of Biotherapeutics, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Michèle Février

Affiliation Unité de Génomique Virale et Vaccination, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Bo Li

Affiliation Division of Biotherapeutics, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Clarisse Lorin

Affiliation GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Rixensart, Belgium

Marguerite Koutsoukos

Affiliation GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Rixensart, Belgium

Edward Mee

Affiliation Division of Virology, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Nicola Rose

Affiliation Division of Virology, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Joanna Hall

Affiliation Division of Virology, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Mark Page

Affiliation Division of Virology, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Neil Almond

Affiliation Division of Virology, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Gerald Voss

Affiliation GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Rixensart, Belgium

Frédéric Tangy

Affiliation Unité de Génomique Virale et Vaccination, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Competing Interests

CL, MK and GV are employees of GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals partly funded this study. RS, MF, BL, EM, NR, JH MP and NA declare no competing interest. FT and CL are listed as “Inventor” of patents related to the measles vector vaccine, the rights of which have been assigned to the Institut Pasteur. Both authors do not hold a patent for the measles vector vaccine described in the present study. MK and GV own shares and/or options to shares in GSK. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS CL MP NA GV FT MK. Performed the experiments: MF BL EM NR JH MP. Analyzed the data: RS BL CL MK GV MP FT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS CL NR MP NA GV FT. Wrote the paper: RS BL CL FT.