About the Authors

Steven A. Yukl

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven A. Yukl, Eli Boritz

Affiliation San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVA) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eli Boritz

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven A. Yukl, Eli Boritz

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael Busch

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

Christopher Bentsen

Affiliation Bio-Rad Laboratories, Redmond, Washington, United States of America

Tae-Wook Chun

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel Douek

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Evelyn Eisele

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ashley Haase

Affiliation University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Ya-Chi Ho

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gero Hütter

Affiliation Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany

J. Shawn Justement

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sheila Keating

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

Tzong-Hae Lee

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

Peilin Li

Affiliation San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVA) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Danielle Murray

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sarah Palmer

Affiliation Department of Diagnostics and Vaccinology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control and Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden

Christopher Pilcher

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

Satish Pillai

Affiliation San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVA) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Richard W. Price

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Meghan Rothenberger

Affiliation University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Timothy Schacker

Affiliation University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Janet Siliciano

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Robert Siliciano

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Elizabeth Sinclair

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

Matt Strain

Affiliation University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Joseph Wong

Affiliation San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVA) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Douglas Richman

Affiliation University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Steven G. Deeks

sdeeks@php.ucsf.edu

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

Competing Interests

Michael Busch has consulted for Gen-Probe (now owned by Hologic), which provided support for some of the virologic measurements performed in this study. Christopher Bentsen is currently employed by Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. and received salary, benefits and stock. He oversaw the testing of samples in this paper with FDA approved tests from Bio-Rad. These relationships do not alter our adherence to all PLoS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S.A. Yukl, E. Boritz, M. Busch, C. Bentsen, T. Chun, D. Douek, A. Haase, Y. Ho, S. Keating, S. Palmer, C. Pilcher, S. Pillai, M. Rothenberger, T. Schacker, J. Siliciano, R. Siliciano, E. Sinclair, M. Strain, J. Wong, D. Richman, S.G. Deeks. Performed the experiments: S.A. Yukl, E. Boritz, C. Bentsen, T. Chun, E. Eisele, Y. Ho, T. Lee, J.S. Justement, S. Keating, P. Li, D. Murray, S. Palmer, S. Pillai, R.W. Price, M. Rothenberger, J. Siliciano, E. Sinclair, M. Strain. Analyzed the data: S.A. Yukl, E. Boritz, M. Busch, C. Bentsen, T. Chun, D. Douek, E. Eisele, A. Haase, Y. Ho, G. Hütter, T. Lee, J.S. Justement, S. Keating, P. Li, D. Murray, S. Palmer, C. Pilcher, S. Pillai, R.W. Price, M. Rothenberger, T. Schacker, J. Siliciano, R. Siliciano, E. Sinclair, M. Strain, J. Wong, D. Richman, S.G. Deeks. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: C. Bentsen, G. Hütter, C. Pilcher. Wrote the paper: S.A. Yukl, E. Boritz, M. Busch, T. Chun, D. Douek, R. Siliciano, M. Strain, D. Richman, S.G. Deeks.