About the Authors

Ravi Tandon

rtandon@hawaii.edu

Affiliation Hawaii Center for AIDS, Department of Tropical Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Maria T. M. Giret

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Devi SenGupta

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Vanessa A. York

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Andrew A. Wiznia

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Michael G. Rosenberg

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Esper G. Kallas

Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Lishomwa C. Ndhlovu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lishomwa C. Ndhlovu, Douglas F. Nixon

Affiliation Hawaii Center for AIDS, Department of Tropical Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Douglas F. Nixon

Contributed equally to this work with: Lishomwa C. Ndhlovu, Douglas F. Nixon

Affiliation Division of Experimental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RT MTMG AAW MGR EGK LCN DFN. Performed the experiments: RT MTMG DS VAY. Analyzed the data: RT MTMG DS MGR EGK LCN DFN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RT MTMG DS VAY AAW MGR EGK LCN DFN. Wrote the paper: RT MTMG DS VAY MGR LCN DFN.