About the Authors

Sean M. Hughes

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

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

April L. Ferre

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Sarah E. Yandura

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Infectious Disease Immunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

Cory Shetler

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chris A. R. Baker

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Core Immunology Lab, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Division of Experimental Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Fernanda Calienes

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Claire N. Levy

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rena D. Astronomo

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Zhiquan Shu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Everett, Washington, United States of America

Gretchen M. Lentz

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael Fialkow

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Anna C. Kirby

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

M. Juliana McElrath

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Elizabeth Sinclair

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Core Immunology Lab, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Lisa C. Rohan

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Peter L. Anderson

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Barbara L. Shacklett

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Charlene S. Dezzutti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dayong Gao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Florian Hladik

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

florian@uw.edu

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ USA provided MK-2018 for use in this study. The authors declare that no other competing interests exist and confirm that this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.