Pre-clinical carotid atherosclerosis and sCD163 among virally suppressed HIV patients in Botswana compared with uninfected controls

• Mosepele Mosepele ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mosepelemosepele@gmail.com, mosepele.mosepele@mopipi.ub.bw

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana, Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6051-0999

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• Linda C. Hemphill,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital (Division of Cardiology-LCH and Divisions of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine-VAT), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Walter Moloi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Sikhulile Moyo,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Isaac Nkele,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Joseph Makhema,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Kara Bennett,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Bennett Statistical Consulting Inc, Ballston Lake, New York, United States of America

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• Virginia A. Triant,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital (Division of Cardiology-LCH and Divisions of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine-VAT), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Shahin Lockman

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana, Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham & Women`s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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