A novel design using a virtual control group to evaluate non-inferiority of nevirapine and lamivudine dual maintenance in HIV therapy

• Alessandro Suter,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Health Ostschweiz (HOCH), Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4891-6614

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• Markus Bickel,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infektiologikum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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• Carsten Depmeier,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Private practice Wyssgasse, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Peter Gute,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infektiologikum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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• Gaby Knecht,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infektiologikum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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• Marcel Stöckle,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Christoph Fux,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Cantonal Hospital of Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

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• Baharak Babouee Flury,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Health Ostschweiz (HOCH), Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland, Department of Infectious Diseases, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Berne, Switzerland

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• Patrick Schmid,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Health Ostschweiz (HOCH), Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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• Pietro Vernazza,

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

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Health Ostschweiz (HOCH), Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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• Christian R. Kahlert

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

  * E-mail: Christian.Kahlert@h-och.ch

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Health Ostschweiz (HOCH), Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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