About the Authors
- Oliver Laeyendecker
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Contributed equally to this work with: Oliver Laeyendecker, Estelle Piwowar-Manning
Affiliations Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Estelle Piwowar-Manning
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Contributed equally to this work with: Oliver Laeyendecker, Estelle Piwowar-Manning
Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Agnes Fiamma
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Affiliation Program in Global Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Michal Kulich
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Affiliation Department of Probability and Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
- Deborah Donnell
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Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Deb Bassuk
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Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Caroline E. Mullis
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Current address: Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Craig Chin
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Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Priscilla Swanson
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research, Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- John Hackett Jr
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research, Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, Illinois, United States of America
- William Clarke
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Mark Marzinke
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Greg Szekeres
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Affiliation Program in Global Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Glenda Gray
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Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital/University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Linda Richter
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Affiliation Human Sciences Research Council, Durban, South Africa
- Michel W. Alexandre
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Suwat Chariyalertsak
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Affiliation Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Alfred Chingono
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- David D. Celentano
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Stephen F. Morin
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Michael Sweat
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
- Thomas Coates
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Affiliation Program in Global Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Susan H. Eshleman
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* E-mail: seshlem@jhmi.edu
Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors declare that they do not have a commercial or other association that might pose a conflict of interest, with the following exceptions: PS and JH are employees and stockholders of Abbott Laboratories, manufacturer of the HIV Combo assay. Abbott Laboratories provided HIV Combo assay testing for this study. Dr. SHE received an honorarium in 2009 for an invited presentation at a symposium sponsored by Abbott Laboratories and has collaborated with investigators at Abbott Laboratories on research projects. 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: OL EPM MK DD DB WC MS TC SHE. Performed the experiments: CEM CC. Analyzed the data: OL EPM AF MK DD DB CEM CC PS JH WC MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS GG LR SC AC DC SFM. Wrote the paper: OL EPM AF MK DD TC SHE. Statistical work: MK DD DB CC. Provided intellectual input into the manuscript: OL EPM AF MK DD DB CEM CC PS JH WC MM GS GG LR MA SC AC DC SFM MS TC SHE.