About the Authors

George Thompson III

grthompson@ucdavis.edu (GT); bspellberg@LABioMed.org (BS)

Affiliations Coccidioidomycosis Serology Laboratory, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Sharon Wang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Robert Bercovitch

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Michael Bolaris

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Dane Van Den Akker

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor- University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

Sandra Taylor

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Rodrigo Lopez

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Antonio Catanzaro

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Jose Cadena

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Peter Chin-Hong

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Interal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Brad Spellberg

grthompson@ucdavis.edu (GT); bspellberg@LABioMed.org (BS)

Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor- University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Funding for this study was generously provided by Pfizer. 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: GT SW AC JC PCH BS. Performed the experiments: SW RB MB DVDA RL. Analyzed the data: GT SW ST AC JC PCH BS. Wrote the paper: GT SW ST AC JC PCH BS.