About the Authors

Beryl A. Koblin

bkoblin@nybloodcenter.org

Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Martin Casapia

Affiliation Asociacion Civil Selva Amazonica, Iquitos, Peru

Cecilia Morgan

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Li Qin

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Zhixue Maggie Wang

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Olivier D. Defawe

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lindsey Baden

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Goepfert

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Georgia D. Tomaras

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David C. Montefiori

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Juliana McElrath

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lilian Saavedra

Affiliation Asociacion Civil Selva Amazonica, Iquitos, Peru

Chuen-Yen Lau

Affiliation Division of Clinical Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Barney S. Graham

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

The NIAID HIV Vaccine Trials Network

Competing Interests

PG is an Academic Editor for PLoS.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAK MC CM LQ C-YL BSG. Performed the experiments: BAK MC LB PG MJM LS GDT DCM. Analyzed the data: BAK LQ ZW ODD BSG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LQ ZW ODD MJM GDT DCM. Wrote the paper: BAK MC CM LQ ODD LB PG MJM CL LS BSG GDT DCM.