Risk of Severe Non AIDS Events Is Increased among Patients Unable to Increase their CD4+ T-Cell Counts >200+/μl Despite Effective HAART

• Giuseppe Lapadula ,

  * E-mail: g.lapadula@hsgerardo.org

  Affiliation Clinic of Infectious Diseases, “San Gerardo de’ Tintori” Hospital, Monza, Italy

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• Liliane Chatenoud,

  Affiliation IRCCS—Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri”, Milan, Italy

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• Andrea Gori,

  Affiliation Clinic of Infectious Diseases, “San Gerardo de’ Tintori” Hospital, Monza, Italy

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• Francesco Castelli,

  Affiliation University Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

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• Simona Di Giambenedetto,

  Affiliation Clinic of Infectious Diseases, “Sacro Cuore” Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Massimiliano Fabbiani,

  Affiliation Clinic of Infectious Diseases, “Sacro Cuore” Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Franco Maggiolo,

  Affiliation Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy

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• Emanuele Focà,

  Affiliation University Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

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• Nicoletta Ladisa,

  Affiliation Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Ospedale Policlinico, Bari, Italy

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• Laura Sighinolfi,

  Affiliation Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Ospedale Sant’Anna, Ferrara, Italy

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• Massimo Di Pietro,

  Affiliation Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Ospedale S.M. Annunziata, Florence, Italy

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• Angelo Pan,

  Affiliation Clinic of Infectious Diseases, Istituti Ospitalieri, Cremona, Italy

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• Carlo Torti,

  Affiliations University Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University “Magna Graecia”, Catanzaro, Italy

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• Italian MASTER Cohort

  ¶Membership of the Italian MASTER Cohort is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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