About the Authors

Jose A. Suaya

Contributed equally to this work with: Jose A. Suaya, Debra F. Eisenberg, Loren G. Miller

Jose.2.Suaya@GSK.com

Affiliation GlaxoSmithKlineVaccines, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Debra F. Eisenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Jose A. Suaya, Debra F. Eisenberg, Loren G. Miller

Affiliation HealthCore, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Christy Fang

Affiliation HealthCore, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Loren G. Miller

Contributed equally to this work with: Jose A. Suaya, Debra F. Eisenberg, Loren G. Miller

Affiliations Los Angeles BioMedical Research Center at Harbor-UCLA, Division of Infectious Diseases, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

This observational study has been sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline. J.A.S. is employed by the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. At the time of this study, J.A.S. worked at GSK Vaccines. D.E. is an employee of HealthCore, which has received funds for GSK for performing research. C.F. was an employee of HealthCore at the time of this research. L.M. has received consulting fees for this study from GSK. L.M. has also received consulting fees from GSK, Pfizer, and Cubist for other research projects. Decisions on study design, data collection and analysis, decision where to publish, and preparation of the manuscript were done solely and collectively by the authors. Authors adhere to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAS DFE LGM. Analyzed the data: JAS DFE CF LGM. Wrote the paper: JAS DFE CF LGM.