About the Authors

Adrian Egli

aegli@ualberta.ca

Current address: Transplant Infectious Diseases, Alberta Institute for Transplantation Sciences and Li Ka Shing Institute for Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Juliane Schäfer

Affiliation Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Michael Osthoff

Affiliation Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Steffen Thiel

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Christina Mikkelsen

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Andri Rauch

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Hans H. Hirsch

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Biomedicine, Institute for Medical Microbiology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Heiner C. Bucher

Affiliation Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

James Young

Affiliation Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Jens C. Jensenius

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Manuel Battegay

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Marten Trendelenburg

Affiliations Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Clinic for Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

the Swiss HIV Cohort Study

Membership of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AE JS MB MT. Performed the experiments: AE MO CM ST. Analyzed the data: AE JS HCB JY MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST JCJ AR HHH. Wrote the paper: AE JS HCB JY MB MT.