About the Authors

Christopher T. Brown

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Austin G. Davis-Richardson

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Adriana Giongo

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Kelsey A. Gano

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

David B. Crabb

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Nabanita Mukherjee

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

George Casella

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jennifer C. Drew

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jorma Ilonen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

Mikael Knip

Affiliation Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Heikki Hyöty

Affiliation Department of Virology, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

Riitta Veijola

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Tuula Simell

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Olli Simell

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

Josef Neu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Clive H. Wasserfall

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Desmond Schatz

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Mark A. Atkinson

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Eric W. Triplett

ewt@ufl.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CTB AGD-R AG KAG DBC JI MK HH RV TS OS JN CHW DS MAA EWT. Performed the experiments: CTB ABD-R AG KAG DBC EWT. Analyzed the data: CTB AGD-R AG NM GC EWT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CTB AGD-R DBC JI MK HH RV TS OS DS. Wrote the paper: CTB AGD-R AG JCD JN MAA EWT.