About the Authors

Soo-Yon Rhee

syrhee@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Michael R. Jordan

Affiliation Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America

Elliot Raizes

Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Arlene Chua

Affiliations Medecins Sans Frontieres, Access Campaign, Geneva, Switzerland, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Neil Parkin

Affiliation Data First Consulting, Belmont, CA, United States of America

Rami Kantor

Affiliation Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States of America

Gert U. Van Zyl

Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service, Tygerberg, Coastal Branch, South Africa, Division of Medical Virology, Stellenbosch University, Parow, South Africa

Irene Mukui

Affiliation National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya

Mina C. Hosseinipour

Affiliation UNC Project, Lilongwe, Malawi

Lisa M. Frenkel

Affiliation University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Nicaise Ndembi

Affiliation Institute of Human Virology, Abuja, Nigeria

Raph L. Hamers

Affiliation Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tobias F. Rinke de Wit

Affiliation Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD), Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Carole L. Wallis

Affiliation Lancet Laboratories and BARC-SA, Johannesburg, South Africa

Ravindra K. Gupta

Affiliation Department of Infection, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Joseph Fokam

Affiliations Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (FMBS) of the University of Yaounde 1, Yaounde, Cameroon

Clement Zeh

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jonathan M. Schapiro

Affiliation National Hemophilia Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel

Sergio Carmona

Affiliations Department of Haematology and Molecular Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

David Katzenstein

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Michele Tang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Avelin F. Aghokeng

Affiliation Virology Laboratory CREMER-IMPM, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Tulio De Oliveira

Affiliation Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Annemarie M. J. Wensing

Affiliation Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Joel E. Gallant

Affiliation Southwest CARE Center, Santa Fe, NM, United States of America

Mark A. Wainberg

Affiliation McGill University AIDS Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Douglas D. Richman

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States of America

Joseph E. Fitzgibbon

Affiliation Drug Development and Clinical Sciences Branch, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Marco Schito

Affiliation HJF-DAIDS, A Division of The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Silvia Bertagnolio

Affiliation HIV Department WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Chunfu Yang

Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Robert W. Shafer

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the authors is employed by a commercial company, Data First Consulting. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RWS SYR. Performed the experiments: RWS SYR. Analyzed the data: AC CY ER MRJ NP RWS SB SYR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GUV MT RKG RLH TFR. Wrote the paper: AC AFA AMJW CLW CY CZ DDR DK ER GUV IM JEF JEG JF JMS LMF MAW MCH MRJ MS MT NN NP RK RKG RLH RWS SB SC SYR TD TFR.