About the Authors

Gabriel Morrhaye

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriel Morrhaye, Hamid Kermani

Affiliation University of Liege Center of Immunology, Laboratory of Immunoendocrinology, Institute of Pathology CHU-B23, Liege-Sart Tilman, Belgium

Hamid Kermani

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriel Morrhaye, Hamid Kermani

Affiliation University of Liege Center of Immunology, Laboratory of Immunoendocrinology, Institute of Pathology CHU-B23, Liege-Sart Tilman, Belgium

Jean-Jacques Legros

Affiliation University of Liege Center of Immunology, Laboratory of Immunoendocrinology, Institute of Pathology CHU-B23, Liege-Sart Tilman, Belgium

Frederic Baron

Affiliation University of Liege, Division of Hematology, CHU-B35, Liege-Sart Tilman, Belgium

Yves Beguin

Affiliation University of Liege, Division of Hematology, CHU-B35, Liege-Sart Tilman, Belgium

Michel Moutschen

Affiliation University of Liege, Division of Immunodeficiencies and Infectious Diseases, CHU-B35, Liege-Sart Tilman, Belgium

Remi Cheynier

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Département de Virologie, Paris, France

Henri J. Martens

hmartens@ulg.ac.be

Affiliation University of Liege Center of Immunology, Laboratory of Immunoendocrinology, Institute of Pathology CHU-B23, Liege-Sart Tilman, Belgium

Vincent Geenen

Affiliation University of Liege Center of Immunology, Laboratory of Immunoendocrinology, Institute of Pathology CHU-B23, Liege-Sart Tilman, Belgium

Competing Interests

Dr. Vincent Geenen received consultant fees as clinical researcher from Pfizer, Inc.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM HJM VG. Performed the experiments: GM HK. Analyzed the data: GM HK JJL MM HJM VG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JJL FB YB RC HJM VG. Wrote the paper: GM FB YB MM RC HJM VG.