About the Authors
- Chanson J. Brumme
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Affiliation BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
- Luke C. Swenson
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Affiliation BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
- Brian Wynhoven
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Affiliation BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
- Benita Yip
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Affiliation BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
- Stuart Skinner
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
- Viviane Dias Lima
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Affiliations BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- Julio S. G. Montaner
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Affiliations BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- P. Richard Harrigan
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* E-mail: prharrigan@cfenet.ubc.ca
Affiliations BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Competing Interests
Some of the kits for the Amplicor testing were donated by Roche Molecular Diagnostics (Laval, Quebec, Canada). PRH is supported through a GlaxoSmithKline/CIHR Chair in Clinical Virology. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JSGM VDL PRH. Performed the experiments: CJB SS JSGM PRH. Analyzed the data: CJB LCS BW BY VDL PRH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS. Wrote the paper: CJB LCS PRH. Provided critical review: BW BY SS VDL JSGM.