About the Authors

Maura Manion

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Benigno Rodriguez

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Kathleen Medvik

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Gareth Hardy

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Clifford V. Harding

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Robert T. Schooley

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Richard Pollard

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

David Asmuth

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Robert Murphy

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for AIDS Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Edward Barker

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Kirsten E. Brady

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Alan Landay

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Nick Funderburg

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Scott F. Sieg

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Michael M. Lederman

lederman.michael@clevelandactu.org

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for AIDS Research, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM GH CVH EB KEB AL NF SFS MML. Performed the experiments: MM KM EB KEB. Analyzed the data: MM BR EB KEB AL NF SFS MML. Wrote the paper: MM BR EB KEB AL SFS MML. Designed the original parent study and enrolled subjects: RTS RP DA RM.