About the Authors

Lisa E. Hensley

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa E. Hensley, Sabue Mulangu

Affiliation Virology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Sabue Mulangu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa E. Hensley, Sabue Mulangu

Affiliation Biodefense Research Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Clement Asiedu

Affiliation Biodefense Research Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joshua Johnson

Affiliation Virology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Anna N. Honko

Affiliation Virology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Daphne Stanley

Affiliation Biodefense Research Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Giulia Fabozzi

Affiliation Biodefense Research Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stuart T. Nichol

Affiliation Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Thomas G. Ksiazek

Current address: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston National Laboratory, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Pierre E. Rollin

Affiliation Special Pathogens Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Victoria Wahl-Jensen

Affiliation Virology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Bailey

Affiliation Biodefense Research Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter B. Jahrling

Affiliation Integrated Research Facility, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mario Roederer

Affiliation Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Richard A. Koup

Affiliation Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nancy J. Sullivan

nsullivan@nih.gov

Affiliation Biodefense Research Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

NJS and PBJ are named on patent applications for Ebola vaccines.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LEH SM RAK NJS. Performed the experiments: LEH SM CA JJ ANH DS GF VWJ MB NJS. Analyzed the data: SM NJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: STN TGK PER PBJ MR. Wrote the paper: CA NJS. Animal protocol assistance: VWJ.