About the Authors

Joe L. Hsu

joehsu@stanford.edu

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Medical Service, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Mohammad A. Khan

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Medical Service, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Raymond A. Sobel

Affiliations Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Pathology and Laboratory Service, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Xinguo Jiang

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Medical Service, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Karl V. Clemons

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Tom T. Nguyen

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Medical Service, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

David A. Stevens

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Marife Martinez

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, California Institute for Medical Research, San Jose, California, United States of America

Mark R. Nicolls

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Medical Service, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLH RS XJ KVC DAS MRN. Performed the experiments: JLH MAK RS XJ KVC TTN MM. Analyzed the data: JLH MAK RS XJ KVC TTN MM DAS MRN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAS MRN. Wrote the manuscript: JLH RS KVC DAS MRN.