From the *Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
†Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
‡Department of Dermatology, Military University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
§Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
¶The Peter Gorer Department of Immunology, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
‖The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
**Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CIENI), National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER), Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
††Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY
‡‡Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, NY
§§Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy-Immunology, Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY.
Accepted for publication August 30, 2020.
Supported by the Department of Medicine, Fund for the Future program at Weill Cornell Medicine, supported by the Kellen Foundation (M.d.M.R.).
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
This study was approved by the Jacobi Medical Center Institutional Review Board.
M.B., P.M.B., and R.A.S.R. performed the experiments. D.C.C., M.B., R.A.S.R., and M.d.M.R. analyzed the data and wrote the paper. M.G.R. helped design the experiments and provided clinical samples. C.E.O. helped with statistical analysis. G.A.B. helped with sample processing. D.F.N., A.A.W., R.A.S.R. and M.d.M.R. conceived the work and supervised the article. M.B. and D.C.C. have contributed equally to the work. All authors have read and approved the final article.
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