About the Authors

Michael A. Thomas

michael.thomas1@howard.edu (MAT); guroffm@mail.nih.gov (MRG)

Current address: Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington, D. C., United States of America

Affiliation Section on Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tinashe Nyanhete

Current address: Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Section on Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Iskra Tuero

Affiliation Section on Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David Venzon

Affiliation Biostatistics and Data Management Section, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Marjorie Robert-Guroff

michael.thomas1@howard.edu (MAT); guroffm@mail.nih.gov (MRG)

Affiliation Section on Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAT. Performed the experiments: MAT TN IT. Analyzed the data: MAT IT DV MRG. Wrote the paper: MAT MRG.