About the Authors
- Anu Kantele
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Contributed equally to this work with: Anu Kantele, Sari H. Pakkanen
* E-mail: anu.kantele@hus.fi
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Sari H. Pakkanen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Anu Kantele, Sari H. Pakkanen
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Riitta Karttunen
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Virology and Immunology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Jussi M. Kantele
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Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Competing Interests
AK has participated as a member in advisory boards of Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis and received honoraria from these. She has acted as a consultant to Crucell on vaccination immunology and been reimbursed for giving lectures by Crucell, GSK, and Bayer. This work was supported by Crucell Switzerland AG. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AK SP RK JK. Performed the experiments: SP. Analyzed the data: AK JK SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK RK. Wrote the paper: AK JK SP.