About the Authors

Kathleen Athearn

Affiliations Human Vaccine Institute, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Christopher J. Sample

Affiliations Human Vaccine Institute, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Brice E. Barefoot

Affiliations Human Vaccine Institute, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kristi L. Williams

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristi L. Williams, Elizabeth A. Ramsburg

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, School of Nursing, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Elizabeth A. Ramsburg

Contributed equally to this work with: Kristi L. Williams, Elizabeth A. Ramsburg

elizabeth.ramsburg@dm.duke.edu

Affiliations Human Vaccine Institute, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ER KA KW. Performed the experiments: KA CS BB. Analyzed the data: KA CS BB ER. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW. Wrote the paper: ER.