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Correspondence: Jens Wrammert, jwramme@emory.edu
Acknowledgements: We thank the participants and parents of infant donors for volunteering their time and efforts to participate in this study. We also thank Christina Rostad and Sanjeev Kumar for critically reviewing the manuscript. The graphical abstract was created using BioRender.com.
Author contributions: D.J. performed data acquisition, data curation and analysis, data visualization, and writing the manuscript. L.E.N. and V.Z. contributed to data curation and analysis, data visualization, and writing review and editing. A.M., K.M., and S.L. contributed to investigation and data curation and analysis. A.R.B. and K.S. provided clinical support and contributed to patient recruitment and clinical data curation. G.M. and C.N. contributed to patient sample collection and paper review. R.A., E.J.A., M.A.S., M.S.S., and J.W. contributed to the conception and design of the study, writing and editing of the manuscript, and obtaining study funding. All authors have read and accepted the manuscript.
Competing interests: M.S.S. has served as an advisor for Ocugen and Moderna. E.J.A. has consulted for Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur, Janssen, and Medscape, and his institution receives funds to conduct clinical research unrelated to this manuscript from MedImmune, Regeneron, PaxVax, Pfizer, GSK, Merck, Sonfi-Pasteur, Janssen, and Micron. He also serves on data and safety monitoring boards for Kentucky BioProcessing, Inc., and Sanofi Pasteur. His institution has also received funding from NIH to conduct clinical trials of Moderna and Janssen COVID-19 vaccines. M.A.S. received funding from CDC, Pfizer, Merck, and Cepheid to study immune response to respiratory virus infections and vaccinations.
This work was supported in part by grants U01AI144673-02, 3U19AI057266-17S2, and U54CA260563 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and by the Oliver S. and Jennie R. Donaldson Charitable Trust, Emory Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Synergy Fund award, the Georgia Research Alliance, the Pediatric Research Alliance Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Emory-UGA Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (Atlanta, GA USA), and a Woodruff Health Sciences Center 2020 COVID-19 CURE Award.
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