About the Authors

Jessica H. Brehm

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yanille Scott

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Infectious Disease and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Dianna L. Koontz

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Steven Perry

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Scott Hammer

Affiliation Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

David Katzenstein

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for AIDS Research, Stanford, California, United States of America

John W. Mellors

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nicolas Sluis-Cremer

nps2@pitt.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

for the AIDS Clinical Trials Group Study 175 Protocol Team

Competing Interests

John Mellors is a consultant to Gilead Sciences, Merck and RFS Pharmaceuticals and owns share options in RFS Pharmaceuticals. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM NSC JB YS. Performed the experiments: JB YS DK SP. Analyzed the data: JB YS JM NSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK SH. Wrote the paper: JM NSC.