About the Authors

Krystle A. Lang Kuhs

Krystle.Kuhs@nih.gov

Affiliation Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mark H. Kuniholm

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ruth M. Pfeiffer

Affiliation Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Sabrina Chen

Affiliation Information Management Services, Calverton, Maryland, United States of America

Seema Desai

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Brian R. Edlin

Affiliation Institute for Infectious Disease Research, National Development and Research Institutes, New York, New York, United States of America

Marion G. Peters

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Michael Plankey

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Gerald B. Sharp

Affiliation Epidemiology Branch, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Howard D. Strickler

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Maria C. Villacres

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Thomas C. Quinn

Affiliation Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen J. Gange

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson

Affiliation Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda Maryland, United States of America

Ruth M. Greenblatt

Affiliation Departments of Clinical Pharmacy, Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Thomas R. O’Brien

Affiliation Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Co-author Sabrina Chen is employed by Information Management Services. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KALK TRO MHK RMP HDS RMG. Performed the experiments: SJG LPO RMG. Analyzed the data: KALK TRO SC RMP MHK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC SD BRE MGP MP GBS MCV TCQ SJG LPO RMG. Wrote the paper: KALK TRO.