About the Authors

Rachel Sacks-Davis

rachelsd@burnet.edu.au

Affiliations Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Excellence into Injecting Drug Use, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Campbell K. Aitken

Affiliations Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Excellence into Injecting Drug Use, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Peter Higgs

Affiliations Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Tim Spelman

Affiliations Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Alisa E. Pedrana

Affiliation Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Scott Bowden

Affiliation Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Mandvi Bharadwaj

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Usha K. Nivarthi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Vijayaprakash Suppiah

Affiliations Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Millennium Institute and Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Pharmacy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Jacob George

Affiliation Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Millennium Institute and Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Jason Grebely

Affiliation Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Heidi E. Drummer

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Margaret Hellard

Affiliations Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Excellence into Injecting Drug Use, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH CA SB HD RSD MB. Performed the experiments: PH SB UN VS MB JGe. Analyzed the data: RSD TS AP MH JGr. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JGe SB MB. Wrote the manuscript: RSD MH CA. Critically reviewed the manuscript: CA PH TS AP SB MB UN VS JGe JGr HD MH.