About the Authors

Lokesh Guglani

Contributed equally to this work with: Lokesh Guglani, Radha Gopal

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Radha Gopal

Contributed equally to this work with: Lokesh Guglani, Radha Gopal

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Javier Rangel-Moreno

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Beth Fallert Junecko

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yinyao Lin

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Thorsten Berger

Affiliation The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research and the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

Tak W. Mak

Affiliation The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research and the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

John F. Alcorn

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Troy D. Randall

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Todd A. Reinhart

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yvonne R. Chan

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shabaana A. Khader

Shabaana.Khader@chp.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LG RG YRC SAK. Performed the experiments: LG RG JRM BFJ YL SAK. Analyzed the data: LG RG JRM YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB TWM JFA TDR TAR YRC. Wrote the paper: LG RG SAK.