About the Authors
- Alan Winston
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* E-mail: a.winston@imperial.ac.uk
Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London, St Mary's Hospital Campus, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom, Department of HIV and GU Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Alejandro Arenas-Pinto
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Affiliations Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Wolfgang Stöhr
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom
- Martin Fisher
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Affiliation Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Chloe M. Orkin
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Affiliation Barts Health NHS Trust, Ambrose King Centre, Royal London Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Kazeem Aderogba
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Affiliation East Sussex Healthcare Trust, Avenue House, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
- Andrew De Burgh-Thomas
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Affiliation Gloucestershire Care Services, Hope House, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester, United Kingdom
- Nigel O'Farrell
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Affiliation Pasteur Suite, Ealing Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Charles JN. Lacey
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Affiliation Centre for Immunology and Infection, Hull York Medical School, University of York, York, United Kingdom
- Clifford Leen
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Affiliations Edinburgh Infectious Diseases, Edinburgh University Regional Infectious Diseases Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- David Dunn
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom
- Nicholas I. Paton
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Affiliations Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- for the PIVOT Trial Team
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¶¶ The members of the PIVOT Trial Team are listed in the Acknowledgements section
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: AW has received honoraria or research grants, or been a consultant or investigator, in clinical trials sponsored by Abbott, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen Cilag, Roche, and Pfizer. All other authors have no conflict of interest. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AW NP DD AP WS. Performed the experiments: AP WS. Analyzed the data: WS DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WS DD AP. Wrote the paper: AW AP WS DD NP MF CO KA ADT CJNL CL NO.