About the Authors
- Julia L. Marcus
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Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, California, United States of America, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- David V. Glidden
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Affiliation University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Kenneth H. Mayer
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Affiliations Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Albert Y. Liu
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Affiliations University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Bridge HIV, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Susan P. Buchbinder
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Affiliations University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Bridge HIV, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- K. Rivet Amico
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Affiliation Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America
- Vanessa McMahan
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Affiliation Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Esper Georges Kallas
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Orlando Montoya-Herrera
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Affiliation Fundación Ecuatoriana Equidad, Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador
- Jose Pilotto
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Affiliation Laboratorio de AIDS e Imunologia Molecular, Hospital Geral de Nova Iguacu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Robert M. Grant
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* E-mail: robert.grant@ucsf.edu
Affiliations Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, San Francisco, California, United States of America, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Co-author Kenneth Mayer has received an unrestricted research grant from Gilead Sciences. Co-author Esper Kallas 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. For the remaining authors, no conflicts of interest were declared.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JLM DVG RMG. Analyzed the data: JLM DVG. Wrote the paper: JLM. Coordinated the study: VM. Oversaw the enrollment of participants and procurement of study samples: KHM AYL SPB VM EGK OM JHP. Contributed to the interpretation of the data: KRA KHM AYL SPB VM EGK OM JHP.