About the Authors

Muriel Nguyen

Contributed equally to this work with: Muriel Nguyen, Elke Leuridan

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Elke Leuridan

Contributed equally to this work with: Muriel Nguyen, Elke Leuridan

Affiliation Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Tong Zhang

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Dominique De Wit

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Fabienne Willems

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Pierre Van Damme

Affiliation Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Michel Goldman

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Stanislas Goriely

stgoriel@ulb.ac.be

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DDW FW PVD MG SG. Performed the experiments: MN TZ DDW. Analyzed the data: MN SG. Wrote the paper: EL SG. Recruited the patient cohort: EL.