About the Authors

Katherine E. Schlusser

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

Christopher Pilcher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Esper G. Kallas

Affiliation University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Breno R. Santos

Affiliation Grupo Hospitalar Conceicao, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Steven G. Deeks

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Shelley Facente

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Sheila M. Keating

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael P. Busch

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Gary Murphy

Affiliation Public Health England, London, United Kingdom

Alex Welte

Affiliation The South African DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Thomas Quinn

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Susan H. Eshleman

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

Oliver Laeyendecker

olaeyen1@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OL CP. Data curation: KES CP EGK BRS SGD SF SMK MPB GM AW TCQ SHE OL. Formal analysis: KES OL. Funding acquisition: CP EGK BRS SGD SF SMK MPB GM AW TCQ SHE. Investigation: KES. Methodology: KES CP EGK BRS SGD SF SMK MPB GM AW TCQ SHE OL. Project administration: KES CP EGK BRS SGD SF SMK MPB GM AW TCQ SHE OL. Resources: CP EGK BRS SGD SF SMK MPB GM AW TCQ SHE. Supervision: OL. Validation: KES. Writing – original draft: KES OL. Writing – review & editing: KES CP EGK BRS SGD SF SMK MPB GM AW TCQ SHE OL.