About the Authors

Huijuan Kou

Contributed equally to this work with: Huijuan Kou, Xiaoli Du

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, Department of Gerontology, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, China

Xiaoli Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Huijuan Kou, Xiaoli Du

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yanling Li

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Jing Xie

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhifeng Qiu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Min Ye

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Qiang Fu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Yang Han

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhu Zhu

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Taisheng Li

litsh@263.net

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL. Performed the experiments: HK XD MY QF ZZ. Analyzed the data: HK XD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK XD TL. Wrote the paper: HK XD. Recruited patients, obtained the written consents and collected plasma samples: YL. Determined plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load: YH. Tested CD4+T cell count: ZQ JX.