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Role of disease-associated tolerance in infectious superspreaders

Smita Gopinath, Joshua S. Lichtman, Donna M. Bouley, Joshua E. Elias, and Denise M. Monack
PNAS November 4, 2014 111 (44) 15780-15785; first published October 20, 2014; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1409968111
Smita Gopinath
Departments of aMicrobiology and Immunology,
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  • For correspondence: dmonack@stanford.edu
  1. Edited by Ruslan Medzhitov, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, and approved September 15, 2014 (received for review May 30, 2014)

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vol. 111 no. 44 15780-15785
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1409968111
PubMed: 
25331868

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue November 4, 2014.
  • Published first October 20, 2014.


Author Information

  1. Smita Gopinatha,
  2. Joshua S. Lichtmanb,
  3. Donna M. Bouleyc,
  4. Joshua E. Eliasb, and
  5. Denise M. Monacka,1
  1. Departments of aMicrobiology and Immunology,
  2. bChemical and Systems Biology,
  3. cComparative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305
  1. Edited by Ruslan Medzhitov, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, and approved September 15, 2014 (received for review May 30, 2014)

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: dmonack{at}stanford.edu.
  • Author contributions: S.G. and D.M.M. designed research; S.G. performed research; J.S.L. and J.E.E. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; S.G., J.S.L., and D.M.B. analyzed data; and S.G. and D.M.M. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1409968111/-/DCSupplemental.

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