About the Authors
- Natalya S. Weber
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* E-mail: Natalya.Weber@us.army.mil
Affiliation Preventive Medicine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
- Jared A. Fisher
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Affiliations Preventive Medicine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Allied Technology Group, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- David N. Cowan
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Affiliations Preventive Medicine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Allied Technology Group, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Teodor T. Postolache
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Affiliation Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Rakel A. Larsen
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Affiliations Preventive Medicine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Allied Technology Group, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- David W. Niebuhr
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Affiliations Preventive Medicine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
ATG has had a service support contract with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) for over 15 years. ATG personnel include epidemiologists and statisticians who support and collaborate with the WRAIR researchers. ATG staff are all at the master’s or doctoral level of training, and they assist in the design, analysis, interpretation and presentation of studies, and in writing and publishing of manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals. There is no financial or other conflict of interest between ATG staff and any of the research with which they participate. ATG and its staff members are contractors with no vested interests in the results, conclusions, and recommendations resulting from any research and have no interests related to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products, or any other aspect of this research. Even though Natalya S. Weber, M.D., M.P.H., is a PLOS One Editorial board member, 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: NSW DNC JAF TTP DN. Performed the experiments: NSW DNC JAF DN. Analyzed the data: NSW JAF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NSW JAF. Wrote the paper: NSW JAF DNC DN TTP RAL.