About the Authors

Junjie Xu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of AIDS Immunology of Ministry of Health, Department of Laboratory Medicine, No.1 Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

M. Kumi Smith

Affiliations National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Guowei Ding

Affiliation National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Jennifer Chu

Affiliation National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Haibo Wang

Affiliation National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Qinghua Li

Affiliation Honghe Prefecture Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Mengzi City, Yunnan, China

Dongfang Chang

Affiliation Kaiyuan City Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kaiyuan, Yunnan, China

Guixiang Wang

Affiliation Kaiyuan City Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kaiyuan, Yunnan, China

Hong Shang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of AIDS Immunology of Ministry of Health, Department of Laboratory Medicine, No.1 Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Yan Jiang

Affiliation National AIDS Reference Laboratory, National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Ning Wang

wangnbj@163.com.

Affiliation National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Contributed important intellectual content for manuscript: HS. Managed the BED-CEIA testing of all HIV positive samples at reference lab of NCAIDS, China CDC: YJ. Conceived and designed the experiments: NW. Performed the experiments: JX GD HW QL DC GW YJ. Analyzed the data: JX HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX MKS. Wrote the paper: JX MKS JC.