About the Authors
- Marie R. Griffin
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* E-mail: marie.griffin@vanderbilt.edu
Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Arnold S. Monto
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Edward A. Belongia
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Affiliation Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
- John J. Treanor
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America
- Qingxia Chen
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Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Jufu Chen
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- H. Keipp Talbot
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Suzanne E. Ohmit
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Laura A. Coleman
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Affiliation Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Gerry Lofthus
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America
- Joshua G. Petrie
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
- Jennifer K. Meece
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Affiliation Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Caroline Breese Hall
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America
- John V. Williams
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Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Paul Gargiullo
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- LaShondra Berman
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- David K. Shay
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Affiliation Influenza Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- for the U.S. Flu-VE Network
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Marie R. Griffin received grant support from MedImmune and Pfizer (formerly Wyeth); Arnold S. Monto has been an ad hoc consultant to Baxter, CSL, GSK, Novartis, and sanofi-pasteur; John J. Treanor is an unpaid member of a data safety monitoring board for Novartis, and has received grant support for laboratory studies from GSK and Mercia Pharmam and for conducting clinical vaccine trials from CSL, Protein Sciences, Wyeth, Merck, and VaxInnate; H. Keipp Talbot received research support from Pfizer (Wyeth), Protein Sciences, sanofi-pasteur, and VaxInnate; Caroline Breese Hall has served as a consultant for MedImmune; John V. Williams has served as a consultant for MedImmune, Novartis, and Quidel. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials..
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MRG ASM EAB JJT HKT SEO LAC GL DKS. Performed the experiments: MRG ASM EAB JJT HKT SEO LAC GL JGP JKM CBH JVW. Analyzed the data: MRG QC JC PG DKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QC JKM CBH JVW LB. Wrote the paper: MRG ASM EAB JJT HKT SEO LAC GL JSP CBH JVW PG LB DKS.