About the Authors

Ivona Pandrea

Affiliations Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Thaidra Gaufin

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Rajeev Gautam

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Jan Kristoff

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Daniel Mandell

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

David Montefiori

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

Brandon F. Keele

Affiliation SAIC Frederick, Inc, NCI, NIH, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Ruy M. Ribeiro

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

Ronald S. Veazey

Affiliation Division of Comparative Pathology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America

Cristian Apetrei

apetreic@cvr.pitt.edu

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Microbiology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CA IP. Performed the experiments: Animal work: TG RG DM. Cell separation and staining: DM TG. Viral load quantification: DM RG JK. Trim genotyping: BFK. Serology: TG RG DCM. Analyzed the data: IP CA RMR RSV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RSV RMR DCM. Wrote the paper: CA IP.