About the Authors
- Andrea A. Kim
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* E-mail: aakim@cdc.gov
Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Global Health (CGH), Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DGHT), Nairobi, Kenya
- Bharat S. Parekh
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Affiliation US CDC, CGH, DGHT, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Mamo Umuro
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Affiliation Kenya Ministry of Health, National Public Health Laboratory Services, Nairobi, Kenya
- Tura Galgalo
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Affiliation Kenya Ministry of Health, National Public Health Laboratory Services, Nairobi, Kenya
- Rebecca Bunnell
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Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Global Health (CGH), Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DGHT), Nairobi, Kenya
- Ernest Makokha
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Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Global Health (CGH), Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DGHT), Nairobi, Kenya
- Trudy Dobbs
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Affiliation US CDC, CGH, DGHT, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Patrick Murithi
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Affiliation Kenya Ministry of Health, National AIDS Control Council, Nairobi, Kenya
- Nicholas Muraguri
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Affiliation Kenya Ministry of Health, National AIDS and STI Control Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
- Kevin M. De Cock
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Affiliation US CDC, CGH, Nairobi, Kenya
- Jonathan Mermin
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Affiliation US CDC, CGH, Nairobi, Kenya
- 2007 KAIS study group
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¶Membership of the 2007 KAIS Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
As an inventor of the LAg-Avidity EIA and as per policy of U.S. government, BSP receives royalties from the sale of this assay. There are no patents relating to this assay and there are no further products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AAK BSP RB JM. Performed the experiments: AAK BSP MU TG TD. Analyzed the data: AAK BSP RB JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BSP TD MU TG. Wrote the paper: AAK BSP MU TG RB EM TD PM NM KDC JM.