About the Authors

Amy Weintrob

Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Infectious Disease Clinic, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Ionut Bebu

Affiliation Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Brian Agan

Affiliation Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Alona Diem

Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Infectious Disease Clinic, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Erica Johnson

Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Infectious Disease Service, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Tahaniyat Lalani

Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Infectious Disease Clinic, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA, United States of America

Xun Wang

Affiliation Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Mary Bavaro

Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Infectious Disease Clinic, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Michael Ellis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Katrin Mende

Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Infectious Disease Service, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Nancy Crum-Cianflone

nancy32red@yahoo.com

Affiliations Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Infectious Disease Clinic, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW IB BA AD EJ TL MB ME KM NCC. Performed the experiments: AW IB BA AD EJ TL MB ME KM NCC XW. Analyzed the data: AW IB NCC XW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IB XW. Wrote the paper: AW IB BA AD EJ TL MB ME KM NCC.