About the Authors

Ard van Sighem

Contributed equally to this work with: Ard van Sighem, Beatriz Vidondo

Affiliation Stichting HIV Monitoring, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Beatriz Vidondo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ard van Sighem, Beatriz Vidondo

Affiliations Division of Communicable Diseases, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Tracy R. Glass

Affiliations Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Heiner C. Bucher

Affiliation Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Pietro Vernazza

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Martin Gebhardt

Affiliation Division of Communicable Diseases, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland

Frank de Wolf

Affiliations Stichting HIV Monitoring, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Steven Derendinger

Affiliation Division of Communicable Diseases, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland

André Jeannin

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Daniela Bezemer

Affiliation Stichting HIV Monitoring, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Christophe Fraser

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Nicola Low

low@ispm.unibe.ch

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AvS BV TG HB FdW DB CF. Performed the experiments: AvS BV. Analyzed the data: AvS BV PV MG AJ DB CF NL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TG HB PV MG FdW SD AJ DB CF. Wrote the paper: AvS BV TG HB PV DB CF NL. Contributed to revising the manuscript and approved the final version: AvS BV TG HB PV MG FdW SD AJ DB CF NL.