Low Levels of Peripheral CD161++CD8+ Mucosal Associated Invariant T (MAIT) Cells Are Found in HIV and HIV/TB Co-Infection

• Emily B. Wong ,

  * E-mail: emilybethwong@gmail.com

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, Durban, South Africa, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  ⨯
• Ngomu Akeem Akilimali,

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, Durban, South Africa, HIV Pathogenesis Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  ⨯
• Pamla Govender,

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, Durban, South Africa, HIV Pathogenesis Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  ⨯
• Zuri A. Sullivan,

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, Durban, South Africa, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  ⨯
• Cormac Cosgrove,

  Affiliation Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  ⨯
• Mona Pillay,

  Affiliation HIV Pathogenesis Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  ⨯
• David M. Lewinsohn,

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America, Portland Veterans Administration Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

  ⨯
• William R. Bishai,

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, Durban, South Africa, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  ⨯
• Bruce D. Walker,

  Affiliations HIV Pathogenesis Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  ⨯
• Thumbi Ndung'u,

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, Durban, South Africa, HIV Pathogenesis Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

  ⨯
• Paul Klenerman,

  Affiliation Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  ⨯
• Victoria O. Kasprowicz

  Affiliations KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, Durban, South Africa, HIV Pathogenesis Programme, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  ⨯