Benign ethnic neutropenia in a South African population, and its association with HIV acquisition and adverse event reporting in an HIV vaccine clinical trial

• Rephaim Mpofu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rephaim.mpofu@uct.ac.za

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4732-5879

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• Kennedy Otwombe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Koleka Mlisana,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Cape Town, South Africa, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Maphoshane Nchabeleng,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mecru Clinical Research Unit, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Mary Allen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• James Kublin,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• M. Juliana McElrath,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Linda-Gail Bekker,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gavin Churchyard,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Glenda Gray,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Fatima Laher

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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