About the Authors

Helen Y. Chu

helenchu@uw.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98102, United States of America

Joanne Katz

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

James Tielsch

Affiliation Department of Global Health, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Subarna K. Khatry

Affiliation Nepal Nutrition Intervention Project-Sarlahi, Sarlahi, Nepal

Laxman Shrestha

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Steven C. LeClerq

Affiliation Nepal Nutrition Intervention Project-Sarlahi, Sarlahi, Nepal

Amalia Magaret

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98102, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98102, United States of America

Jane Kuypers

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98102, United States of America

Mark C. Steinhoff

Affiliation Global Health Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, United States of America

Janet A. Englund

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States of America

Competing Interests

JAE has received research support from Gilead, Chimerix, GlaxoSmithKline, and Roche, has received payment for lectures from Abbvie, and serves as a consultant for GlaxoSmithKline and Gilead. HYC has received research support from GlaxoSmithKline. MS serves on the board of the Novartis Vaccine Institute for Global Health. AM consults for AiCuris. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HYC MCS JAE JT J. Katz. Performed the experiments: HYC J. Kuypers. Analyzed the data: HYC AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J. Katz JT. Wrote the paper: HYC J. Katz JT SKK LS SCL AM J. Kuypers MCS JAE.