About the Authors

Behzad Hajarizadeh

bhajarizadeh@kirby.unsw.edu.au

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia (University of New South Wales), Sydney, NSW, Australia

Bart Grady

Affiliation Cluster Infectious Diseases, GGD Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kimberly Page

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Arthur Y. Kim

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Barbara H. McGovern

Affiliations Tufts Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Abbvie, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Andrea L. Cox

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas M. Rice

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rachel Sacks-Davis

Affiliations Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Julie Bruneau

Affiliation CRCHUM, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

Meghan Morris

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Janaki Amin

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia (University of New South Wales), Sydney, NSW, Australia

Janke Schinkel

Affiliation Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Tanya Applegate

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia (University of New South Wales), Sydney, NSW, Australia

Lisa Maher

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia (University of New South Wales), Sydney, NSW, Australia

Margaret Hellard

Affiliations Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Andrew R. Lloyd

Affiliation Inflammation and Infection Research Centre, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Maria Prins

Affiliations Cluster Infectious Diseases, GGD Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gregory J. Dore

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia (University of New South Wales), Sydney, NSW, Australia

Jason Grebely

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia (University of New South Wales), Sydney, NSW, Australia

InC3 Study Group

More information on the InC3 Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors confirm that co-authors JA and JG are PLOS ONE Editorial Board members. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria. The authors confirm that coauthor BM is employed by a commercial company: Abbvie. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BH BG KP AK BM AC TR RSD JB MM JA JS TA LM MH ARL MP GJD JG. Performed the experiments: BH JG GJD BG AK BM KP MP. Analyzed the data: BH BG JG JA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BH BG KP AK BM AC TR RSD JB MM JA JS TA LM MH ARL MP GJD JG. Wrote the paper: BH JG GJD. Reviewed and commented on the manuscript: BH BG KP AK BM AC TR RSD JB MM JA JS TA LM MH ARL MP GJD JG.