About the Authors

Claudia Pappas

Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Karthik Viswanathan

Affiliation Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Aarthi Chandrasekaran

Affiliation Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rahul Raman

Affiliation Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jacqueline M. Katz

Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ram Sasisekharan

Affiliation Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Terrence M. Tumpey

tft9@cdc.gov

Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP KV AC RR JMK RS TMT. Performed the experiments: CP KV AC RR TMT. Analyzed the data: CP KV AC RR JMK RS TMT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CP KV AC RR JMK RS TMT. Wrote the paper: CP RR JMK RS TMT.