The synthetic opioid fentanyl increases HIV replication in macrophages

• Janani Madhuravasal Krishnan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janani Madhuravasal Krishnan, Ling Kong

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Ling Kong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Janani Madhuravasal Krishnan, Ling Kong

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Heidi L. Meeds,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Krishna M. Roskin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Mario Medvedovic,

  Roles Conceptualization, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental & Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Kenneth E. Sherman,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Center for Addiction Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Jason T. Blackard

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jason.blackard@uc.edu

  Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Center for Addiction Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2876-3811

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