About the Authors

Siriwat Akapirat

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Chitraporn Karnasuta

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Sandhya Vasan

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand, The Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Supachai Rerks-Ngarm

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Punnee Pitisuttithum

Roles Resources

Affiliation Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Sirinan Madnote

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Hathairat Savadsuk

Roles Investigation

Current address: SEARCH, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Surawach Rittiroongrad

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Jiraporn Puangkaew

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Sanjay Phogat

Roles Resources

Affiliation Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James Tartaglia

Roles Resources

Affiliation Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Faruk Sinangil

Roles Resources

Affiliation Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases (GSID), South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mark S. de Souza

Roles Writing – review & editing

Current address: AIDS Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliations Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand, The Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Jean-Louis Excler

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Affiliations The Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Jerome H. Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Merlin L. Robb

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Nelson L. Michael

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Viseth Ngauy

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Malaria Vaccine Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Robert J. O'Connell

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand, US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Nicos Karasavvas

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

nicos.karasavva.mil@mail.mil

Current address: Viral Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

on behalf of The RV305 Study Group

Membership of the RV305 Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Faruk Sinangil is employees of Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases. James Tartaglia and Sanjay Phogat are employees of Sanofi Pasteur. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare no potential conflicts of interest.