About the Authors

Adam S. Lauring

alauring@med.umich.edu

Current address: Departments of Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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

Tzong-Hae Lee

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jeffrey N. Martin

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

Peter W. Hunt

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

Steven G. Deeks

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

Michael Busch

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL MB SD. Performed the experiments: AL T-HL LM. Analyzed the data: AL MB SD T-HL LM PH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM. Wrote the paper: AL MB SD.