About the Authors
- Diane Thomas
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Contributed equally to this work with: Diane Thomas, John Naughton
Affiliation Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- John Naughton
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Contributed equally to this work with: Diane Thomas, John Naughton
Affiliation Nomis Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Christopher Cote
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Affiliation Bacteriology Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Susan Welkos
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Affiliation Bacteriology Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
- Marianne Manchester
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* E-mail: mmanchester@ucsd.edu (MM); jyoung@salk.edu (JATY)
Affiliation Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- John A. T. Young
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* E-mail: mmanchester@ucsd.edu (MM); jyoung@salk.edu (JATY)
Affiliation Nomis Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
JATY is a scientific founder of Pharmathene, Inc. MM and JATY hold stock in Pharmathene, Inc. Pharmathene's product portfolio related to anthrax includes * SparVax™ - recombinant protective antigen (rPA) anthrax vaccine, and * Valortim® - fully human monoclonal antibody antitoxin – treatment of anthrax. JATY and MM have a US patent Appl. No.: 12/070,384, Antitoxin and vaccine platform based on nodavirus VLPs. JATY has US patent application 11/340,424, Anthrax antitoxins. 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: DET JN CC SW JATY MM. Performed the experiments: DET JN CC MM. Analyzed the data: DET JN CC SW JATY MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DET JN CC SW JATY MM. Wrote the paper: DET JN CC SW JATY MM.