Tuberculous meningitis is associated with higher cerebrospinal HIV-1 viral loads compared to other HIV-1-associated meningitides

• Ikanyeng D. Seipone,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Ravesh Singh,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Department of Microbiology, National Health Laboratory Services, KwaZulu-Natal Academic Complex, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, South Africa

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• Vinod B. Patel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital and the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Avashna Singh,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Michelle L. Gordon,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Daniel M. Muema,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Keertan Dheda,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Division of Pulmonology & Lung Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Thumbi Ndung’u

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ndungu@ukzn.ac.za

  Affiliations HIV Pathogenesis Programme, Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2962-3992

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