About the Authors
- Boaz Avidor
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Contributed equally to this work with: Boaz Avidor, Dan Turner
Affiliations Crusaid Kobler AIDS Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, Laboratory of Viruses and Molecular Biology, Sourasky Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Dan Turner
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Contributed equally to this work with: Boaz Avidor, Dan Turner
Affiliation Crusaid Kobler AIDS Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Zohar Mor
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Affiliation Ramle Department of Health, Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Ramla, Israel
- Shirley Chalom
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Affiliation Crusaid Kobler AIDS Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Klaris Riesenberg
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Affiliation Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Eduardo Shahar
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Affiliation Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Shimon Pollack
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Affiliation Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
- Daniel Elbirt
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Affiliation Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel
- Zev Sthoeger
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Affiliation Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel
- Shlomo Maayan
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Affiliation Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Karen Olshtain-Pops
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Affiliation Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Diana Averbuch
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Affiliation Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Michal Chowers
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Affiliation Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel
- Valery Istomin
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Affiliation Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel
- Emilia Anis
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Public Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
- Ella Mendelson
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Affiliations Central Virology, Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health, Ramat-Gan, Israel, School of Public Health, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Daniela Ram
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Affiliation Central Virology, Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health, Ramat-Gan, Israel
- Itzchak Levy
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Infectious Diseases Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel
- Zehava Grossman
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* E-mail: zehava.grossman@gmail.com
¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation School of Public Health, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Competing Interests
IL is a consultant for Jansen, Glaxo-SmithKline, MSD, and BioTIS; provided expert testimony for Viif; has been a member of the speakers’ bureau for Jansen, GlaxoSmithKline, MSD, and BioTIS; and has received expense reimbursement for travel/meetings from Jansen, GlaxoSmithKline, MSD, and BioTIS. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Initiated and coordinated the study: ZG IL DT BA. Summarized data from the HIV National Registry: ZM. Summarized data from the STI National Registry: EA. Crossed information on co-infection of HIV-1 patients with hepatitis, syphilis, and TB within the study population: ZM EA. Managed the patients and provided clinical data: DT KR ES SP DE ZS SM KOP DA MC VI IL. Provided virological lab analysis: ZG BA SC DR. Wrote the first drafts: ZG BA DT ZM MC IL. Wrote the final version: ZG. Read the manuscript critically, discussed and approved the results and the text: BA DT ZM SC KR ES SP DE ZS SM KOP DA MC VI EA EM DR IL ZG.