About the Authors

Peter G. Barlow

Current address: School of Life, Sport and Social Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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

Pavel Svoboda

Affiliation Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Division of Scientific Resources, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Annie Mackellar

Affiliation MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Queens Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Anthony A. Nash

Affiliation The Roslin Institute and Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ian A. York

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

Jan Pohl

Affiliation Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Division of Scientific Resources, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Donald J. Davidson

Contributed equally to this work with: Donald J. Davidson, Ruben O. Donis

Affiliation MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Queens Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ruben O. Donis

Contributed equally to this work with: Donald J. Davidson, Ruben O. Donis

rdonis@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: PGB AAN IAY JP DJD ROD. Performed the experiments: PGB PS AM. Analyzed the data: PGB AM JP DJD ROD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PGB PS JP. Wrote the paper: PGB JP PS AAN IAY DJD ROD.