About the Authors

Eugènia Negredo

Contributed equally to this work with: Eugènia Negredo, Montse Jiménez

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

enegredo@flsida.org

Affiliations Lluita Contra la SIDA Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain, Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Vic–Central University of Catalonia (UVic–UCC), Catalonia, Spain

Montse Jiménez

Contributed equally to this work with: Eugènia Negredo, Montse Jiménez

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

Affiliation AIDS Research Institute-IrsiCaixa, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Jordi Puig

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lluita Contra la SIDA Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain

Cora Loste

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lluita Contra la SIDA Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain

Núria Pérez-Álvarez

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

Affiliations Lluita Contra la SIDA Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain, Statistics and Operation Research Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Victor Urrea

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AIDS Research Institute-IrsiCaixa, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Patricia Echeverría

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lluita Contra la SIDA Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain

Anna Bonjoch

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lluita Contra la SIDA Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain

Bonaventura Clotet

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lluita Contra la SIDA Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain, Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Vic–Central University of Catalonia (UVic–UCC), Catalonia, Spain, AIDS Research Institute-IrsiCaixa, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Julià Blanco

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Centre for Health and Social Care Research (CESS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Vic–Central University of Catalonia (UVic–UCC), Catalonia, Spain, AIDS Research Institute-IrsiCaixa, Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute-IGTP, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Competing Interests

Unrelated to this work, JB is CEo founder and shareholder of AlbaJuna Therapeutics, S.L. This study was funded by Merk Sharp & Dome (MSD) through the MSD Investigator Studies Program (IIS # 52754), grant to EN. This funder did not play any role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript "This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.