About the Authors

S. Abigail Smith

Affiliations Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Samantha L. Burton

Affiliations Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

William Kilembe

Affiliation Zambia Emory HIV Research Project, Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe, Zambia

Shabir Lakhi

Affiliation Zambia Emory HIV Research Project, Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe, Zambia

Etienne Karita

Affiliation Projet San Francisco, Kigali, Rwanda

Matt Price

Affiliations International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America, UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Susan Allen

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

Eric Hunter

Affiliations Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Cynthia A. Derdeyn

cderdey@emory.edu

Affiliations Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CAD SAS. Formal analysis: CAD SAS SLB. Funding acquisition: CAD. Investigation: SAS SLB. Methodology: CAD SAS. Project administration: CAD. Resources: WK SL EK MP SA EH. Supervision: CAD. Writing – original draft: CAD SAS. Writing – review & editing: CAD SAS WK SL EK MP SA EH.