About the Authors
- Urvi M. Parikh
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* E-mail: ump3@pitt.edu
Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Photini Kiepiela
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Affiliation HIV Prevention Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa
- Shayhana Ganesh
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Affiliation HIV Prevention Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa
- Kailazarid Gomez
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Affiliation FHI 360, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
- Stephanie Horn
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Affiliation FHI 360, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
- Krista Eskay
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Cliff Kelly
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Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Barbara Mensch
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Affiliation Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America
- Pamina Gorbach
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Lydia Soto-Torres
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Affiliation Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Gita Ramjee
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Affiliation HIV Prevention Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa
- John W. Mellors
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- on behalf of the IPTc Taskforce
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¶Membership of the MTN-009 Protocol Team is provided in the Acknowledgments
Competing Interests
The co-authors UMP, PK, SG, KG, SH, KE, CK, BM, PG, LS-T, and GR have declared that no competing interests exist. JM has read the journal’s policy and has the following conflicts: University of Pittsburgh–Employee; RFS Pharmaceuticals–Consultant, owns shares in shre options; Gilead Sciences–Consultant; and, Janssen Pharmaceuticals–Honorarium. JM’s conflicts do not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: UMP PK SG KG SH BM PG LST. Performed the experiments: PK SG KE. Analyzed the data: UMP KE CK BM PG. Wrote the paper: UMP BM PG GR JWM.