About the Authors

Victor G. Valcour

vvalcour@memory.ucsf.edu

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

Serena S. Spudich

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Napapon Sailasuta

Affiliation Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Nittaya Phanuphak

Affiliation South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Sukalaya Lerdlum

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

James L. K. Fletcher

Affiliation South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Eugene D. M. B. Kroon

Affiliations South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, United States Component, Bangkok, Thailand

Linda L. Jagodzinski

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Isabel E. Allen

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Collin L. Adams

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

Peeriya Prueksakaew

Affiliation South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Bonnie M. Slike

Affiliations United States Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joanna M. Hellmuth

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

Jerome H. Kim

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Jintanat Ananworanich

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, United States Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

SEARCH 010/RV 254 Study Group

Membership of the SEARCH 010/RV 254 Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Affiliation South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Competing Interests

Dr. Valcour has recently served as a consultant to ViiV Healthcare, who have supported antiretrovirals for this study but have not had input on the analyses or the manuscript. The authors also note that The Thai Government Pharmaceutical Organization (tenofovir, lamivudine, efavirenz), Gilead (Truvada, Atripla), Merck (Sustiva, Isentress), and ViiV Healthcare (Selzentry) provided antiretroviral therapy. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VGV SSS NP JHK JA. Performed the experiments: NP JLKF EDMBK PP JMH JA. Analyzed the data: VGV SSS JA IEA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VGV SSS NS NP SL JLKF EDMBK LLJ IEA CLA PP BMS JMH JHK JA. Wrote the paper: VGV SSS NS NP SL JLKF EDMBK LLJ IEA CLA PP BMS JMH JHK JA.