About the Authors

Cecilia Rademeyer

Affiliation Division of Medical Virology & Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Cape Town South Africa

Bette Korber

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Michael S. Seaman

Affiliation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elena E. Giorgi

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Ruwayhida Thebus

Affiliation Division of Medical Virology & Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Cape Town South Africa

Alexander Robles

Affiliation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Daniel J. Sheward

Affiliation Division of Medical Virology & Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Cape Town South Africa

Kshitij Wagh

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Jetta Garrity

Affiliation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Brittany R. Carey

Affiliation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hongmei Gao

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Kelli M. Greene

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Haili Tang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Gama P. Bandawe

Affiliation Division of Medical Virology & Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Cape Town South Africa

Jinny C. Marais

Affiliation Division of Medical Virology & Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Cape Town South Africa

Thabo E. Diphoko

Affiliation Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

Peter Hraber

Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Nancy Tumba

Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), NHLS & University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Penny L. Moore

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), NHLS & University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Glenda E. Gray

Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

James Kublin

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

M. Juliana McElrath

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

Marion Vermeulen

Affiliation South African National Blood Service, Weltevreden Park, South Africa

Keren Middelkoop

Affiliation Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Department of Medicine and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa

Linda-Gail Bekker

Affiliation Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Department of Medicine and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town (UCT), Cape Town, South Africa

Michael Hoelscher

Affiliation Department for Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine, Klinikum University of Munich, LMU and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Leonard Maboko

Affiliation NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center, Mbeya, Tanzania

Joseph Makhema

Affiliation Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

Merlin L. Robb

Affiliation US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Salim Abdool Karim

Affiliation Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Affiliation Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Jerome H. Kim

Affiliations US Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Beatrice H. Hahn

Affiliation Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Feng Gao

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ronald Swanstrom

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Lynn Morris

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), NHLS & University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

David C. Montefiori

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Carolyn Williamson

carolyn.williamson@uct.ac.za

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology & Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Cape Town South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BK MSS DCM CW. Performed the experiments: CR RT AR JG BRC GPB JCM TED MSS. Analyzed the data: CR BK MSS EEG KW PH CW DJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BK MSS DJS HG KMG HT PH GEG JK MJM MV KM LB MH LMo JM MLR SAK QAK JHK BHH FG RS LMa DCM CW PLM NT. Wrote the paper: BK MSS DCM CW LMo CR.