About the Authors

Tina S. Skinner-Adams

tinaS@qimr.edu.au

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Division, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Alice S. Butterworth

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Kimberly A. Porter

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

Ronald D'Amico

Affiliation Global Medical Affairs, Abbott Laboratories, New York, United States of America

Fred Sawe

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute/Walter Reed Project, Kericho, Kenya

Doug Shaffer

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute/Walter Reed Project, Kericho, Kenya

Abraham Siika

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Moi University Faculty of Health Sciences, Eldoret, Kenya

Mina C. Hosseinipour

Affiliation University of North Carolina Project, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi

Elizabeth Stringer

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, United States of America

Judith S. Currier

Affiliation UCLA CARE Center, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Tsungai Chipato

Affiliation University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

Robert Salata

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Shahin Lockman

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joseph J. Eron

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Steven R. Meshnick

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

James S. McCarthy

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Division, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

RDS is employed by Abbot Pharmaceuticals, the funder of this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL SRM JSM. Performed the experiments: TSA ASB. Analyzed the data: TSA ASB JSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KAP RD FS DS AS MH ES JC TC RS JJE. Wrote the paper: TSA JSM.