About the Authors

Mimi Ghosh

Contributed equally to this work with: Mimi Ghosh, John V. Fahey

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

John V. Fahey

Contributed equally to this work with: Mimi Ghosh, John V. Fahey

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Zheng Shen

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Timothy Lahey

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Susan Cu-Uvin

Affiliation The Immunology Center, The Miriam Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Zhijin Wu

Affiliation Department of Community Health and Center for Statistical Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Kenneth Mayer

Affiliation The Immunology Center, The Miriam Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Peter F. Wright

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

John C. Kappes

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Christina Ochsenbauer

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Charles R. Wira

Charles.R.Wira@dartmouth.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG JVF SCU KHM CRW. Performed the experiments: MG ZS PFW. Analyzed the data: MG JVF ZS TL ZW PFW CO CRW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCU KHM PFW JCK CO. Wrote the paper: MG JVF TL PFW CO CRW.