About the Authors

Naveen K. Vaidya

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Libin Rong

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, United States of America

Vincent C. Marconi

Affiliation Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Daniel R. Kuritzkes

Affiliation Section of Retroviral Therapeutics, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steven G. Deeks

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alan S. Perelson

asp@lanl.gov

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NKV SGD ASP. Performed the experiments: NKV LR SGD. Analyzed the data: NKV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VCM DRK SGD. Wrote the paper: NKV LR VCM DRK SGD ASP.