About the Authors
- Philip J. Palumbo
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Affiliation Dept. of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Ethan A. Wilson
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Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Estelle Piwowar-Manning
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Affiliation Dept. of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Marybeth McCauley
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Affiliation Science Facilitation Department, FHI 360, Washington DC, United States of America
- Theresa Gamble
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Affiliation Science Facilitation Department, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Newton Kumwenda
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Affiliation College of Medicine-Johns Hopkins Project, Blantyre, Malawi
- Joseph Makhema
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Affiliation Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana
- Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy
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Affiliation CART CRS, YRGCARE Medical Centre, VHS, Chennai, India
- Suwat Chariyalertsak
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Affiliation Research Institute for Health Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- James G. Hakim
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Affiliation Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Mina C. Hosseinipour
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Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, UNC Project-Malawi, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Lilongwe, Malawi
- Marineide G. Melo
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Affiliation Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Serviço de Infectologia, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Sheela V. Godbole
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Affiliation National AIDS Research Institute (ICMR), Pune, India
- Jose H. Pilotto
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Affiliation Hospital Geral de Nova Iguacu and Laboratorio de AIDS e Imunologia Molecular-IOC/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Beatriz Grinsztejn
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Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas-INI-Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Ravindre Panchia
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Affiliation Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Soweto HPTN CRS, Soweto, South Africa
- Ying Q. Chen
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Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Myron S. Cohen
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Affiliation Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Susan H. Eshleman
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* E-mail: seshlem@jhmi.edu
Affiliation Dept. of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Jessica M. Fogel
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Affiliation Dept. of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist, with the following exceptions: MCH has received honoraria for advisory board membership from ViiV healthcare. MSC receives honoraria for advisory board membership from Janssen Global Services, Roche Molecular Systems, and Merck Research. SHE has collaborated with Abbott Diagnostics on evaluation of HIV-related assays; Abbott Diagnostics has provided reagents for other research studies. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: PJP SHE JMF. Data curation: PJP MM TG N. Kumwenda JM N. Kumarasamy SC JGH MCH MGM SVG JHP BG RP MSC. Formal analysis: PJP EAW YQC SHE JMF. Funding acquisition: SHE. Investigation: PJP SHE JMF. Methodology: PJP EAW YQC SHE JMF. Project administration: PJP EPM SHE JMF. Resources: PJP SHE JMF. Supervision: SHE. Validation: SHE. Visualization: PJP SHE JMF. Writing – original draft: PJP SHE JMF. Writing – review & editing: PJP EAW EPM MM TG N. Kumwenda JM N. Kumarasamy SC JGH MCH MGM SVG JHP BG RP YQC MSC SHE JMF.