About the Authors

Punnee Pitisuttithum

tmppt@mahidol.ac.th

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Supachai Rerks-Ngarm

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand

Valai Bussaratid

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Jittima Dhitavat

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Wirach Maekanantawat

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Swangjai Pungpak

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Pravan Suntharasamai

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sirivan Vanijanonta

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sorachai Nitayapan

Affiliation Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Jaranit Kaewkungwal

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Michael Benenson

Affiliation Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Patricia Morgan

Affiliation Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Robert J. O'Connell

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jeffrey Berenberg

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Sanjay Gurunathan

Affiliation Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Donald P. Francis

Affiliation Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Robert Paris

Affiliation Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Joseph Chiu

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

Donald Stablein

Affiliation EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Nelson L. Michael

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jean-Louis Excler

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Merlin L. Robb

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jerome H. Kim

Affiliation U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Sanjay Gurunathan reports being employee of Sanofi Pasteur, who provided the reagents for the ALVAC-HIV vaccine. Donald P. Francis is employee of Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases (VaxGen), who provided the reagents for the immunogenicity assays. No other potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent the positions of the U.S. Army or Department of Defense or other institutions involved in the study. Donald Stablein is employee of The EMMES Corporation, a Contract Research Organization (CRO), responsible for the statistical analysis of the clinical trial data. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: DS JLE MLR JB JHK PP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG DPF JK PM DS. Wrote the paper: PP JLE DS MLR RJO JHK. Conceived and designed the trial design: SRN PP DS MB JK NLM RP SG DPF JHK JC PM MLR. Performed the clinical trial: SRN PP VB JD WM SP PS SV SN.