About the Authors

Teresa H. Evering

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, an affiliate of the Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Saurabh Mehandru

Current address: Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, an affiliate of the Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Paul Racz

Affiliation Bernhard-Nocht Institut Fur Tropenmedizin, Hamburg, Germany

Klara Tenner-Racz

Affiliation Bernhard-Nocht Institut Fur Tropenmedizin, Hamburg, Germany

Michael A. Poles

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Pathology, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Amir Figueroa

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, an affiliate of the Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Hiroshi Mohri

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, an affiliate of the Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Martin Markowitz

mmarkowitz@adarc.org

Affiliation Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, an affiliate of the Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

MM serves as a paid consultant for Gilead, Tibotec, Merck and ViiV Healthcare/GlaxoSmithKline. He is also a paid speaker for Gilead and Tibotec and receives Research Support from Gilead. The remaining authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM THE HM. Performed the experiments: THE SM PR KTR MAP AF. Analyzed the data: THE SM PR KTR. Wrote the paper: THE MM.