About the Authors

Yen T. Duong
Maofeng Qiu

Current address: National AIDS Reference Laboratory, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Anindya K. De
Keisha Jackson
Trudy Dobbs
Andrea A. Kim
John N. Nkengasong
Bharat S. Parekh

bparekh@cdc.gov

Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. As inventor of the method, Bharat Parekh receives a portion of the royalties received by the CDC from commercialization of the assay. 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: BSP YTD. Performed the experiments: YTD MQ KJ TD. Analyzed the data: BSP YTD AKD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BSP YTD AKD JNN. Wrote the paper: BSP YTD AKD AAK JNN.