About the Authors

Yuka Nadai

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Lindsay M. Eyzaguirre

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Anne Sill

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Farley Cleghorn

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Claudine Nolte

Affiliation GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Manhattan Charurat

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Santiago Collado-Chastel

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Studies, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Noreen Jack

Affiliation Medical Research Foundation, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Courtenay Bartholomew

Affiliation Medical Research Foundation, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Jean W. Pape

Affiliation GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Peter Figueroa

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kingston, Jamaica

William A. Blattner

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jean K. Carr

jecarr@ihv.umaryland.edu

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS FRC WAB JKC. Performed the experiments: YN LME CN NJ JWP PF. Analyzed the data: YN LME JKC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS FRC CN MC SCC NJ CB JWP PF WAB. Wrote the paper: YN.