About the Authors
- Erika Aaron
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* E-mail: eaaron@drexelmed.edu
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Mirjam-Colette Kempf
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Shannon Criniti
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Ellen Tedaldi
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Affiliation Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Ed Gracely
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Affiliation Department of Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Amy Warriner
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Ritu Kumar
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, United States of America
- Laura H. Bachmann
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Affiliations WG Hefner Medical Center, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States of America, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals is a commercial funder of this study; however there are no other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products and this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: EA. Performed the experiments: EA MCK SC ET AHW RAK LHB. Analyzed the data: EA MCK SC ET EJG LHB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EA. Wrote the paper: EA MCK SC ET AHW RAK LHB.