About the Authors

Alison Castley

allison.castley@health.wa.gov.au

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth Western Australia

Shailendra Sawleshwarkar

Affiliations Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Western Sydney Local Health District, Parramatta NSW Australia, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, NSW,Australia

Rick Varma

Affiliations Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Western Sydney Local Health District, Parramatta NSW Australia, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, NSW,Australia

Belinda Herring

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, ICPMR-Pathology West (NSW Health Pathology), Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead NSW, Australia

Kiran Thapa

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, ICPMR-Pathology West (NSW Health Pathology), Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead NSW, Australia

Dominic Dwyer

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, ICPMR-Pathology West (NSW Health Pathology), Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Westmead NSW, Australia

Doris Chibo

Affiliation HIV Characterisation Laboratory, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Doherty Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Nam Nguyen

Affiliation Division of Immunology, HSQ Pathology Queensland Central Laboratory, RBWH Herston, Queensland, Australia

Karen Hawke

Affiliations South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia

Rodney Ratcliff

Affiliations Clinic 275, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, SA Pathology, Adelaide South Australia

Roger Garsia

Affiliation The Clinical Immunology Department, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney NSW, Australia

Anthony Kelleher

Affiliation The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW Australia

David Nolan

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth Western Australia

The Australian Molecular Epidemiology Network-HIV (AMEN-HIV)

complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exists.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AC DN SS RV AK KH DC NN BH KT DD RR RG. Data curation: AC DN SS RV. Formal analysis: AC DN. Funding acquisition: AC. Investigation: AC DN SS RV AK KH DC NN BH KT DD RR RG. Methodology: AC DN. Project administration: AC DN SS AK. Resources: AC DN SS RV AK KH DC NN BH KT DD RR RG. Software: AC DN. Supervision: DN SS AK. Validation: AC DN SS RV AK KH DC NN BH KT DD RR RG. Visualization: AC DN. Writing – original draft: AC DN. Writing – review & editing: AC DN SS RV AK KH DC NN BH KT DD RR RG.