About the Authors

Barbara Bartmeyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara Bartmeyer, Claudia Kuecherer

Gunsenheimer-BartmeyerB@rki.de

Affiliation HIV/AIDS, STD Unit, Department Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Claudia Kuecherer

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara Bartmeyer, Claudia Kuecherer

Gunsenheimer-BartmeyerB@rki.de

Affiliation Project HIV Variability and Molecular Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Claudia Houareau

Affiliation HIV/AIDS, STD Unit, Department Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Johanna Werning

Affiliation HIV/AIDS, STD Unit, Department Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Kathrin Keeren

Affiliation Project HIV Variability and Molecular Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Sybille Somogyi

Affiliation Project HIV Variability and Molecular Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Christian Kollan

Affiliation HIV/AIDS, STD Unit, Department Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Heiko Jessen

Affiliation Gemeinschaftspraxis Jessen-Jessen-Stein, Berlin, Germany

Stephan Dupke

Affiliation Gemeinschaftspraxis Dupke, Baumgarten, Carganico, Berlin, Germany

Osamah Hamouda

Affiliation HIV/AIDS, STD Unit, Department Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

on behalf of the German HIV-1 Seroconverter Study Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB CK OH. Performed the experiments: KK SS. Analyzed the data: CH JW CK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJ SD. Wrote the paper: BB.