ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We wish to acknowledge all subjects for their participation and donate
their blood and time for this study. The authors wish to thank all the
personnel from the clinical sites involved in this work and Rho,
particularly Amanda Farrell, Stephanie Wellford, Jessica Baucom, and
Kelly Penke for their incessant efforts, supervision, and coordination.
This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under
grants 1UM1AI114271-01, UM2AI117870, and 5UM1AI114271-03. Additional
support was provided by the National Center for Research Resources, and
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National
Institutes of Health, under grants NCATS/NIH UL1TR001079, NCATS/NIH
UL1TR001422, NCATS/NIH UL1TR001876, NIH/CTSA 5UL1TR001425-03, and
NIAID/NIH U19AI135731. Dr. Lisa M. Wheatley and Alkis Togias
co-authorship of this publication does not necessarily constitute
endorsement by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, the National Institutes of Health or any other agency of the
United States government.