About the Authors

Miranda S. Oakley

Affiliation Division of Bacterial, Parasitic and Allergenic Products, Center for Biologics and Evaluation Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Victoria Majam

Affiliation Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics and Evaluation Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Babita Mahajan

Affiliation Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics and Evaluation Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Noel Gerald

Affiliation Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics and Evaluation Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Vivek Anantharaman

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jerrold M. Ward

Affiliation Infectious Disease Pathogenesis Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Lawrence J. Faucette

Affiliation Infectious Disease Pathogenesis Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas F. McCutchan

Affiliation Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Hong Zheng

Affiliation Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics and Evaluation Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Masaki Terabe

Affiliation Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jay A. Berzofsky

Affiliation Vaccine Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

L. Aravind

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sanjai Kumar

sanjai.kumar@fda.hhs.gov

Affiliation Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Center for Biologics and Evaluation Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSO LA SK. Performed the experiments: MSO VM BM NG VA JMW LJF HZ MT. Analyzed the data: MSO VM BM NG VA JMW LJF TFM HZ MT JAB LA SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TFM JAB SK. Wrote the paper: MSO LA SK.