About the Authors
- Iskra Tuero
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Contributed equally to this work with: Iskra Tuero, Venkatramanan Mohanram
Affiliation Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection Section, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Venkatramanan Mohanram
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Contributed equally to this work with: Iskra Tuero, Venkatramanan Mohanram
Affiliation Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection Section, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Thomas Musich
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Affiliation Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection Section, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Leia Miller
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Affiliation Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection Section, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Diego A. Vargas-Inchaustegui
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Affiliation Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection Section, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Thorsten Demberg
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Affiliation Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection Section, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- David Venzon
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Affiliation Biostatistics and Data Management Section, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Irene Kalisz
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Affiliation Advanced Bioscience Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- V. S. Kalyanaraman
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Affiliation Advanced Bioscience Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Ranajit Pal
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Affiliation Advanced Bioscience Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Maria Grazia Ferrari
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Affiliation Advanced Bioscience Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Celia LaBranche
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Affiliation Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- David C. Montefiori
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Affiliation Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Mangala Rao
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Affiliation USMHRP, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
- Monica Vaccari
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Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Genoveffa Franchini
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Affiliation Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Susan W. Barnett
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Marjorie Robert-Guroff
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* E-mail: guroffm@mail.nih.gov
Affiliation Immune Biology of Retroviral Infection Section, Vaccine Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
IK, RP and MGF are current employees and VSK is a past employee of Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc. SWB was an employee and shareholder of Novartis Vaccines when this work was conducted. She is currently an employee and shareholder of Glaxo Smith Kline, Cambridge, MA, USA. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MRG IT VM TM LM DAVI TD SWB. Performed the experiments: IT VM TD TM LM DAVI IK VSK RP MGF CL DCM MR. Analyzed the data: MRG IT VM TM LM DAVI TD CL DCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SWB MV GF. Wrote the paper: MRG IT VM TM LM DAVI TD SWB CL. Performed statistical analysis of the study data: DV.