About the Authors

Oliver Laeyendecker

olaeyen1@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Amanda Latimore

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

Susan H. Eshleman

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jean Summerton

Current address: Oregon Health Science University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Amy E. Oliver

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jordyn Gamiel

Affiliation The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Trudy Dobbs

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global AIDS Program, International Laboratory Branch, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Joanne Mei

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Gary Murphy

Affiliation Microbiology Services, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom

John V. Parry

Affiliation Microbiology Services, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom

S. Michele Owen

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Thomas C. Quinn

Affiliations Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OL SHE JS JM GM SMO TCQ. Performed the experiments: JS AEO JG TD GM. Analyzed the data: OL AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHE JM GM JVP SMO. Wrote the paper: OL AL SHE JM GM JVP SMO TCQ.