About the Authors

Nathan Erdmann

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Victor Y. Du

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jonathan Carlson

Affiliation Microsoft Research, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Malinda Schaefer

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Alexander Jureka

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Sarah Sterrett

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Ling Yue

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Dario Dilernia

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Shabir Lakhi

Affiliation Zambia Emory Research Project, Lusaka, Zambia

Jianming Tang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

John Sidney

Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jill Gilmour

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Institute and Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Susan Allen

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Eric Hunter

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Sonya Heath

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Anju Bansal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Paul A. Goepfert

paulg@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Jonathan Carlson is employed by Microsoft. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials. The remaining authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NE VYD JC JT JS EH AB PAG. Performed the experiments: NE VYD JC MS AJ SS LY DD JT. Analyzed the data: NE VYD JC AJ JT EH AB PAG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SL JT JS JG SA EH SH PAG. Wrote the paper: NE VYD JC JT EH AB PAG.