About the Authors

Jairam R. Lingappa

Contributed equally to this work with: Jairam R. Lingappa, Slavé Petrovski

lingappa@UW.edu

Affiliations Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Slavé Petrovski

Contributed equally to this work with: Jairam R. Lingappa, Slavé Petrovski

Affiliations Center for Human Genome Variation, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, The Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Erin Kahle

Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jacques Fellay

Affiliations Center for Human Genome Variation, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kevin Shianna

Affiliations Center for Human Genome Variation, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

M. Juliana McElrath

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Katherine K. Thomas

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jared M. Baeten

Affiliations Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Connie Celum

Affiliations Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Anna Wald

Affiliations Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Guy de Bruyn

Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

James I. Mullins

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Edith Nakku-Joloba

Affiliation Mulago Hospital, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Carey Farquhar

Affiliations Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Max Essex

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Deborah Donnell

Affiliation Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

James Kiarie

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Bart Haynes

Affiliations Center for Human Genome Variation, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David Goldstein

Affiliations Center for Human Genome Variation, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

for the Partners in Prevention HSV/HIV Transmission Study Team

Membership of the Partners in Prevention HSV/HIV Transmission Study Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRL SP JF MJM JMB CC AW JIM DD BH DG. Performed the experiments: JRL SP KS CC AW GdB JIM EN-J CF ME JK DG. Analyzed the data: JRL SP EK KKT. Wrote the paper: JRL SP EK JF KS MJM KKT JMB CC AW GdB JIM EN-J CF ME DD JK DG.