HIV infects astrocytes in vivo and egresses from the brain to the periphery

• Victoria Lutgen,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Srinivas D. Narasipura,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Hannah J. Barbian,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Maureen Richards,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Jennillee Wallace,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Roshanak Razmpour,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Tetyana Buzhdygan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Servio H. Ramirez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Lisa Prevedel,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Eliseo A. Eugenin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Lena Al-Harthi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Lena_Al-Harthi@rush.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogens and Immunity, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3915-3904

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