About the Authors
- Zhiyong Zhou
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Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Nick Wagar
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Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Joshua R. DeVos
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Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Erin Rottinghaus
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Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Karidia Diallo
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Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Duc B. Nguyen
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Affiliation Department of Health and Human Services/US CDC, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Orji Bassey
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Affiliation CDC/GAP, Abuja, Nigeria
- Richard Ugbena
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Affiliation CDC/GAP, Abuja, Nigeria
- Nellie Wadonda-Kabondo
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Affiliation Community Health Sciences Unit, Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
- Michelle S. McConnell
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Affiliations Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Thailand Ministry of Public Health/US CDC Collaboration, Nonthaburi, Thailand
- Isaac Zulu
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Affiliation Global AIDS Program CDC-Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
- Benson Chilima
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Affiliation Community Health Sciences Unit, Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
- John Nkengasong
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Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Chunfu Yang
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* E-mail: cxy0@cdc.gov
Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Competing Interests
Chunfu Yang, Zhiyong Zhou, Joshua R. DeVos and Nick Wager are the inventors in U.S. patent application no.: 61/504,522. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CY JN ZZ. Performed the experiments: ZZ NW JRD ER. Analyzed the data: ZZ CY NW ER KD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DBN OB RU NW-K MSM IZ BC JN. Wrote the paper: ZZ CY.