About the Authors

Johanna Brännström

johanna.brannstrom@karolinska.se

Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Veronica Svedhem

Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Gaetano Marrone

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Örjan Andersson

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Sundsvall County Hospital, Sundsvall, Sweden

Farshad Azimi

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Gävle County Hospital, Gävle, Sweden

Anders Blaxhult

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science and Education, Venhälsan, Stockholm South General Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Anders Sönnerborg

Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

AS has received grants for the study from the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare, Public Health Agency of Sweden and Gilead Science Nordic. JB received grants from Karolinska Institutet and Swedish Physicians against AIDS Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. JB had full access to the data and responsibility for the submission. For the remaining authors none were declared. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JB VS GM AS. Data curation: JB. Formal analysis: JB GM. Funding acquisition: JB VS AS. Investigation: JB GM. Methodology: JB GM AS. Project administration: JB. Resources: JB VS ÖA FA AB AS. Software: AS. Supervision: VS GM AS. Validation: JB VS GM ÖA FA AB AS. Visualization: JB VS GM AS. Writing – original draft: JB. Writing – review & editing: JB VS GM ÖA FA AB AS.