About the Authors

Cynthia A. Pise-Masison

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Maria Fernanda de Castro-Amarante

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yoshimi Enose-Akahata

Affiliation Viral Immunology Section, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

R. Cody Buchmann

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Claudio Fenizia

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robyn Washington Parks

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Dustin Edwards

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Martina Fiocchi

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Luiz Carlos Alcantara Jr

Affiliation Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Izabela Bialuk

Affiliation Department of General and Experimental Pathology, Medical University in Białystok, Białystok, Poland

Jhanelle Graham

Affiliation Viral Immunology Section, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jean-Claude Walser

Affiliation Evolutionary Biology, Genetic Diversity Centre, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Katherine McKinnon

Affiliation Vaccine Branch Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Bernardo Galvão-Castro

Affiliation Oswaldo Cruz Foundation Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Antoine Gessain

Affiliation Unité d'Epidémiologie et Physiopathologie des Virus Oncogènes, Département de Virologie, Batiment Lwoff, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

David Venzon

Affiliation Biostatistics and Data Management Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Steven Jacobson

Affiliation Viral Immunology Section, Neuroimmunology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Genoveffa Franchini

franchig@mail.nih.gov

Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAPM GF. Performed the experiments: CAPM MFdCA YEA RCB RWP CF DE MF LCJA IB JG. Analyzed the data: CAPM KM DV GF JCW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BGC AG SJ. Wrote the paper: CAPM GF.