About the Authors
- Xiaozhen Zhang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaozhen Zhang, Marybeth Daucher
Affiliation Immunopathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Marybeth Daucher
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Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaozhen Zhang, Marybeth Daucher
Affiliation Immunopathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- David Armistead
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Affiliation Life Technologies Incorporated, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
- Rodney Russell
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada
- Shyam Kottilil
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* E-mail: skottilil@niaid.nih.gov
Affiliation Immunopathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
Mr. Armistead is an employee of Life Technologies, Inc., a biotechnology company. His contribution to the manuscript included data analysis of miRNA arrays. Neither Mr. Armistead nor Life Technologies, Inc. have a competing financial interest in this manuscript. Therefore, 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: XZ MD DA RR SK. Performed the experiments: XZ DA. Analyzed the data: XZ MD DA RR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RR. Wrote the paper: MD SK.