About the Authors
- Sajjad Rafiq
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Margaret L. Russell
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* E-mail: mlrussel@ucalgary.ca
Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Richard Webby
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Kevin Fonseca
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Affiliation Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Marek Smieja
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Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Pardeep Singh
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Mark Loeb
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Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MR ML MS. Performed the experiments: ML MR KF. Analyzed the data: MR SR PS ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF. Wrote the paper: SR MR RW KF PS ML MS. Interpretation of the data: SR MR KF RW PS ML MS. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: SR MR KF RW PS ML MS. Obtained funding: ML MR KF RW MS. Administrative technical or material support: ML MR KF PS. Study supervision: ML MR KF.