HIV Impairs Lung Epithelial Integrity and Enters the Epithelium to Promote Chronic Lung Inflammation

• Kieran A. Brune ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kieran A. Brune, Venkataramana K. Sidhaye

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Fernanda Ferreira ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Pooja Mandke ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Eric Chau,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Neil R. Aggarwal,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Franco R. D’Alessio,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Allison A. Lambert,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Gregory Kirk,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Joel Blankson,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• M. Bradley Drummond ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Athe M. Tsibris ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Venkataramana K. Sidhaye

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kieran A. Brune, Venkataramana K. Sidhaye

  * E-mail: vsidhay1@jhmi.edu

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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