About the Authors

David Sacks

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for HIV and STIs, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Jinal N. Bhiman

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America,

Affiliations Centre for HIV and STIs, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Kevin Wiehe

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jason Gorman

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter D. Kwong

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Lynn Morris

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for HIV and STIs, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, 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

Penny L. Moore

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

pennym@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations Centre for HIV and STIs, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, 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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.