About the Authors

Yvonne Vercoulen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yvonne Vercoulen, Ellen J. Wehrens

y.vercoulen@umcutrecht.nl

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ellen J. Wehrens

Contributed equally to this work with: Yvonne Vercoulen, Ellen J. Wehrens

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Nienke H. van Teijlingen

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Wilco de Jager

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jeffrey M. Beekman

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Molecular Immunology Lab, Department of Immunology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Berent J. Prakken

Affiliations Department of Pediatric Immunology, Center for Molecular and Cellular Intervention, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine, Siracusa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YV EJW NHvT JB BJP. Performed the experiments: YV EJW NHvT WdJ. Analyzed the data: YV EJW NHvT WdJ. Wrote the paper: YV EJW JB BJP.