About the Authors

Michelli F. Oliveira

mfariadeoliveira@ucsd.edu (MFO); gianella@ucsd.edu (SG)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Antoine Chaillon

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Masato Nakazawa

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Milenka Vargas

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Scott L. Letendre

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center, San Diego, California, United States of America

Matthew C. Strain

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ronald J. Ellis

Affiliations HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Sheldon Morris

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Susan J. Little

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Davey M. Smith

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Sara Gianella

mfariadeoliveira@ucsd.edu (MFO); gianella@ucsd.edu (SG)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MFO MS RJE SM SL SJL DMS SG. Formal analysis: MFO AC MN SG. Funding acquisition: SM SJL DMS SG. Investigation: MFO MV SM SJL DMS SG. Methodology: MFO AC MN SG. Resources: SM SJL DMS SG. Supervision: SM SJL DMS SG. Visualization: MFO AC MN SG. Writing – original draft: MFO AC MN DMS SG. Writing – review & editing: MFO AC MN MV MS SL MS RJE SM SJL DMS SG.