About the Authors

Sajjad Rafiq

Affiliation Department of Pathology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Margaret L. Russell

mlrussel@ucalgary.ca

Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Richard Webby

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Kevin Fonseca

Affiliation Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Marek Smieja

Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Pardeep Singh

Affiliation Department of Pathology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mark Loeb

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.