About the Authors

Matthew B. Greenblatt

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vladimir Vbranac

Affiliations Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institutes of Technology, and Harvard and Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Trevor Tivey

Affiliations Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institutes of Technology, and Harvard and Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kelly Tsang

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andrew M. Tager

Affiliations Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institutes of Technology, and Harvard and Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America

Antonios O. Aliprantis

aaliprantis@partners.org

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MBG AOA AMT. Performed the experiments: MBG VV TT KT. Analyzed the data: MGB AOA TT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGB AOA AMT VV KT. Wrote the paper: MBG AOA AMT.