About the Authors

Rebecca N. Koehler

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program/Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Anne M. Walsh

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program/Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Eric E. Sanders-Buell

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program/Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Leigh Anne Eller

Affiliation Makerere University Walter Reed Research Project, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Kampala, Uganda

Michael Eller

Affiliation Makerere University Walter Reed Research Project, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Kampala, Uganda

Jeffrey R. Currier

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program/Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Christian T. Bautista

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program/Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Fred Wabwire-Mangen

Affiliation Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Michael Hoelscher

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Mbeya Medical Research Program, Mbeya, Tanzania

Leonard Maboko

Affiliation Mbeya Medical Research Program, Mbeya, Tanzania

Jerome Kim

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Nelson L. Michael

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Merlin L. Robb

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program/Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Francine E. McCutchan

Current address: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program/Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Gustavo H. Kijak

gkijak@hivresearch.org

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program/Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RNK AMW EESB FM GHK. Performed the experiments: RNK AMW. Analyzed the data: RNK AMW CB GHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAE MAE JRC FWM MH LM JK NM MLR. Wrote the paper: RNK GHK. Critical review of manuscript: AMW EESB LAE MAE JRC CB FWM MH LM JK NM MLR FM.