About the Authors

Benjamin E. Atkinson

batkinso@uw.edu

Affiliation Madison Clinic, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Supriya Krishnan

Affiliation Statistical and Data Analysis Center, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gary Cox

Affiliation Department of Medicine – Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Todd Hulgan

Affiliation School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Ann C. Collier

Affiliations Madison Clinic, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

TH has received research funding from Merck & Co. ACC has received past research support from Tibotec, Merck Laboratories, Schering-Plough, Boehringer-Ingelheim, and Gilead Sciences; and current research support from Merck and Co. ACC was a member of a DSMB for a Merck-sponsored study. She had equity in Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories, Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer in the past. The remaining authors claim no competing interests. 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: BEA SK ACC. Performed the experiments: BEA SK ACC. Analyzed the data: BEA SK GC TH ACC. Wrote the paper: BEA SK GC TH ACC.