About the Authors
- Jörg Schüpbach
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* E-mail: schupbach.jorg@virology.uzh.ch
Affiliation University of Zurich, Institute of Medical Virology, Swiss National Center for Retroviruses, Zurich, Switzerland
- Martin D. Gebhardt
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Affiliation Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Berne, Switzerland
- Alexandra U. Scherrer
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Leslie R. Bisset
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Affiliation University of Zurich, Institute of Medical Virology, Swiss National Center for Retroviruses, Zurich, Switzerland
- Christoph Niederhauser
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Affiliation Blood Transfusion Service, Swiss Red Cross Berne, Berne, Switzerland
- Stephan Regenass
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Affiliation University Hospital, Clinic for Immunology, Zurich, Switzerland
- Sabine Yerly
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Affiliations University of Zurich, Institute of Medical Virology, Swiss National Center for Retroviruses, Zurich, Switzerland, Geneva University Hospitals, Laboratory of Virology, Genève, Switzerland
- Vincent Aubert
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Affiliation University Hospital, Service of Immunology and Allergy, University Hospital Center, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Franziska Suter
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Affiliation University of Berne, Institute of Infectious Diseases, Berne, Switzerland
- Stefan Pfister
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Affiliation Institut Dr. Viollier AG, Basel, Switzerland
- Gladys Martinetti
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Affiliation Ente ospedaliero cantonale, Servizio di microbiologia, Bellinzona, Switzerland
- Corinne Andreutti
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Affiliation Clinique de la Source, Laboratoire, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Thomas Klimkait
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Affiliation University of Basel, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Basel, Switzerland
- Marcel Brandenberger
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Affiliation Labor Synlab Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
- Huldrych F. Günthard
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- the Swiss HIV Cohort Study
Competing Interests
The following authors were associated with private companies when this work was done: SP with Viollier, Inc., a commercial diagnostic laboratory; CA with Clinique de la Source, a private hospital; MB with Synlab, a commercial diagnostic laboratory. These affiliations do not alter the authors′ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
¶The members of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study are listed in the Acknowledgments.
Conceived and designed the experiments: JS HFG MDG TK LRB SY CA GM. Performed the experiments: LRB CN SR SY VA FS SP GM CA TK MB. Analyzed the data: JS AUS MDG. Wrote the paper: JS HFG MDG TK. Maintains SFOPH HIV notification database and provided these data to the study: MDG. Provided the data of the ZPHI study: HFG.