About the Authors

Mark H. Kuniholm

mark.kuniholm@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Christina M. Parrinello

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Kathryn Anastos

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Michael Augenbraun

Affiliation Department of Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

Michael Plankey

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Marek Nowicki

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Marion Peters

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Elizabeth T. Golub

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Nell Lurain

Affiliation Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alan L. Landay

Affiliations Department of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Howard D. Strickler

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Robert C. Kaplan

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Acquisition of funding, collection of data: KA MA MP MN MP ETG RCK. Performed laboratory testing: NL ALL. Critical review of the manuscript for important intellectual content: MHK CMP KA MA MP MN MP ETG NL ALL HDS RCK. Analyzed the data: MHK CMP. Wrote the paper: MHK HDS RCK.