About the Authors

Mark A. Winters

Mark.winters@stanford.edu

Affiliations AIDS Research Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Robert M. Lloyd Jr.

Affiliation Research ThinkTank, Inc., Buford, Georgia, United States of America

Robert W. Shafer

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Michael J. Kozal

Affiliations Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michael D. Miller

Affiliation Gilead Sciences, Foster City, California, United States of America

Mark Holodniy

Affiliations AIDS Research Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: MDM is an employee and stock holder of Gilead Sciences, Inc. RWS is an employee of Research ThinkTank, Inc. MJK serves as principal investigator for studies from which Yale University receives grant support from Merck, Pfizer, Gilead, Abbott, Glaxo Smith Kline and Bristol-Myers Squibb. MJK receives royalties from a patent owned by Stanford University for some HIV diagnostic tests. 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: MH MDM MAW RML. Performed the experiments: MAW RWS MJK MDM. Analyzed the data: MAW MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH RWS MJK MDM. Wrote the paper: MH MAW RWS MJK RML MDM.