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Affiliations

¹ Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA arturo.casadevall@einstein.yu.edu.
² Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Elizabeth B. Lamb Center for Pediatric Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
⁵ Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Editorial

Arturo Casadevall et al. J Virol. 2014 Jun.

. 2014 Jun;88(12):6535-7.

doi: 10.1128/JVI.00875-14. Epub 2014 Apr 2.

¹ Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA arturo.casadevall@einstein.yu.edu.
² Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Elizabeth B. Lamb Center for Pediatric Research, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA.
⁵ Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

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