About the Authors

Rong Rong

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

Bing Li

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

Rebecca M. Lynch

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

Richard E. Haaland

Current address: Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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

Megan K. Murphy

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

Joseph Mulenga

Affiliations Zambia Emory HIV Research Project, ZEHRP, Lusaka, Zambia, Zambia Blood Transfusion Service, Lusaka, Zambia

Susan A. Allen

Affiliations Zambia Emory HIV Research Project, ZEHRP, Lusaka, Zambia, Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Abraham Pinter

Affiliations Public Health Research Institute, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, New Jersey School of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

George M. Shaw

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

Eric Hunter

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

James E. Robinson

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

S. Gnanakaran

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

Cynthia A. Derdeyn

cynthia.derdeyn@emory.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RR REH CAD. Performed the experiments: RR BL RML REH MKM. Analyzed the data: RR REH AP GMS EH SG CAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM SAA JER. Wrote the paper: RR EH SG CAD. Contributed to participant recruitment, follow-up, and field site management: JM SAA.