About the Authors

Young-Mi Go

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Sang-Moo Kang

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

James R. Roede

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Michael Orr

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Dean P. Jones

dpjones@emory.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-MG DPJ. Performed the experiments: Y-MG S-MK JRR MO. Analyzed the data: Y-MG DPJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S-MK DPJ. Wrote the paper: Y-MG DPJ.