Low Levels of Mannan-Binding Lectin or Ficolins Are Not Associated with an Increased Risk of Cytomegalovirus Disease in HIV-Infected Patients

• Adrian Egli ,

  * E-mail: aegli@ualberta.ca

  Current address: Transplant Infectious Diseases, Alberta Institute for Transplantation Sciences and Li Ka Shing Institute for Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Juliane Schäfer,

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

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• Michael Osthoff,

  Affiliation Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Steffen Thiel,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Christina Mikkelsen,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Andri Rauch,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Hans H. Hirsch,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Biomedicine, Institute for Medical Microbiology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Heiner C. Bucher,

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

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• James Young,

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

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• Jens C. Jensenius,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

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• Manuel Battegay,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Marten Trendelenburg,

  Affiliations Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Clinic for Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• the Swiss HIV Cohort Study

  ¶Membership of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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