About the Authors

Hong-Van Tieu

htieu@nybloodcenter.org

Affiliations Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Ting-Yuan Liu

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Sophia Hussen

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Matthew Connor

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Lei Wang

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Susan Buchbinder

Affiliation Bridge HIV, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Leo Wilton

Affiliations Department of Human Development, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, United States of America, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Pamina Gorbach

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Division of InfectiousDiseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Kenneth Mayer

Affiliation Fenway Community Health Center, Boston, MA, United States of America

Sam Griffith

Affiliation FHI 360, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States of America

Corey Kelly

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Vanessa Elharrar

Affiliation Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Gregory Phillips

Affiliation The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Washington, DC, United States of America

Vanessa Cummings

Affiliation Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Beryl Koblin

Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, NY, United States of America

Carl Latkin

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HVT BAK CL. Performed the experiments: HVT TYL LW SB LW PG KM SG CK VE GP VC BAK CL. Analyzed the data: HVT TYL LW MC BAK CL. Wrote the paper: HVT SH BAK CL.