About the Authors

Yukari Okamoto

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Luca A. Vricella

Affiliation Department of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

William J. Moss

Affiliations W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Diane E. Griffin

dgriffin@jhsph.edu

Affiliation W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO DEG. Performed the experiments: YO. Analyzed the data: YO DEG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WM LV. Wrote the paper: YO DEG.