Acute phase proteins, such as C-reactive protein (CRP), Serum Amyloid A2 (SAA2), and Lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LPS-BP) were increased several fold in both infection types, but were not present at high enough levels to be quantitated in the naive NHP plasma samples (see Fig. 2 and Table 1a, b). This evidence concerns the gene LBP and infection.