About the Authors
- Beryl A. Koblin
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* E-mail: bkoblin@nybloodcenter.org
Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Kenneth H. Mayer
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Affiliation Fenway Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Susan H. Eshleman
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Lei Wang
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Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Sharon Mannheimer
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Harlem Hospital/Columbia University and Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Carlos del Rio
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Affiliation Department of Global Health, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Steven Shoptaw
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Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Manya Magnus
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Health Services George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Susan Buchbinder
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Affiliation San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Leo Wilton
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Affiliation Department of Human Development, College of Community and Public Affairs, Binghamton University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Ting-Yuan Liu
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Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Vanessa Cummings
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Estelle Piwowar-Manning
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Sheldon D. Fields
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Affiliation Florida International University-College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Miami, Florida, United States of America
- Sam Griffith
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Affiliation FHI 360, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
- Vanessa Elharrar
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Affiliation Clinical Prevention Research Branch/PSP/DAIDS/NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Darrell Wheeler
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Affiliation Graduate School of Social Work, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- for the HPTN 061 Protocol Team
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¶Membership of the HPTN 061 Protocol Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BAK KHM DW LW SDF SHE SG VE. Performed the experiments: BAK KHM SM CDR SS MM SB VC EP-M SG. Analyzed the data: LW T-YL BAK. Wrote the paper: BAK KHM SHE LW SG.