About the Authors

Marnie L. Elizaga

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

Sandhya Vasan

Current address: United States Army Medical Component, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Mary A. Marovich

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

Alicia H. Sato

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Dale N. Lawrence

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

Bernard R. Chaitman

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Sharon E. Frey

Affiliation Clinical Research Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy and Immunology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Michael C. Keefer

Michael_Keefer@URMC.Rochester.edu

Membership of the MVA Cardiac Safety Working Group is provided in the Acknowledgements.

Affiliation University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLE SV MAM DNL SEF MCK. Performed the experiments: MLE SV MAM BRC SEF MCK. Analyzed the data: AHS MLE SV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BRC MLE DNL. Wrote the paper: MLE SV MAM AHS DNL BRC SEF MCK.