About the Authors
- Charles F. Gilks
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Contributed equally to this work with: Charles F. Gilks, A. Sarah Walker
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- A. Sarah Walker
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Contributed equally to this work with: Charles F. Gilks, A. Sarah Walker
* E-mail: asw@ctu.mrc.ac.uk
Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom
- Paula Munderi
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/ Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Cissy Kityo
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Affiliation Joint Clinical Research Centre, Kampala, Uganda
- Andrew Reid
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Affiliation Clinical Research Centre, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Elly Katabira
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Mulago, Uganda
- Ruth L. Goodall
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom
- Heiner Grosskurth
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/ Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Peter Mugyenyi
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Affiliation Joint Clinical Research Centre, Kampala, Uganda
- James Hakim
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Affiliation Clinical Research Centre, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Diana M. Gibb
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Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom
- on behalf of the DART Virology Group and Trial Team
Competing Interests
Viiv Healthcare/GlaxoSmithKline, Gilead and Boehringer-Ingelheim donated first-line drugs for DART, and Abbott provided Kaletra/Aluvia as part of the second-line regimen for DART. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Contributed to interpretation, revised manuscript critically and approved final version: CFG ASW P. Munderi CK AR EK RLG HG P. Mugyenyi JH DMG. Conceived and designed the experiments: CFG ASW DMG. Performed the experiments: P. Munderi CK AR EK HG P. Mugyenyi JH CFG ASW RLG DMG. Analyzed the data: ASW. Wrote the paper: CFG ASW DMG.