About the Authors

Hanna Brattgård

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Per Björkman

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Piotr Nowak

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Carl Johan Treutiger

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/Venhälsan, South General Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Magnus Gisslén

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Region Västra Götaland, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Olof Elvstam

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

olof.elvstam@med.lu.se

Affiliations Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Växjö Central Hospital, Växjö, Sweden

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PB has received grants from Swedish State, grants from Region Skåne, grants from Gilead Nordic Fellowship during the conduct of the study, and personal fees from Gilead, outside the submitted work. CT has received honoraria as speaker and/or advisor from GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV, outside the submitted work. MG has received research grants from Gilead Sciences and Janssen-Cilag and honoraria as speaker and/or scientific advisor from Amgen, Biogen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV, Janssen-Cilag, MSD, Novocure, Novo Nordic and Sanofi, outside the submitted work. OE has received grant from Pfizer, outside the submitted work. The manuscript does not include patents, products in development or marketed products, and none of the authors report employment or consultancy as competing interest for this work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.