About the Authors

Dongwan D. Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongwan D. Kang, Yinyao Lin

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yinyao Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongwan D. Kang, Yinyao Lin

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Javier-Rangel Moreno

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Troy D. Randall

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Shabaana A. Khader

Shabaana.Khader@chp.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAK TDR. Performed the experiments: DDK YL JRM. Analyzed the data: DDK YL JRM TDR SAK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DDK TDR SAK. Wrote the paper: DDK TDR SAK.