About the Authors

Joelle M. Brown

Joelle.Brown@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Eugenie Poirot

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Kristen L. Hess

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Stephen Brown

Affiliation AIDS Research Alliance of America, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Michele Vertucci

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, AIDS Research Alliance of America, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Marjan Hezareh

Affiliation AIDS Research Alliance of America, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMB MH. Performed the experiments: SB MV MH. Analyzed the data: JMB KH EP. Wrote the paper: JMP EP. Approved the final version of the manuscript: JMB EP KH SB MV MH.