About the Authors

Anna Maria Geretti

geretti@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Infection & Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Zoe Fox

Affiliation Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Jeffrey A. Johnson

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Clare Booth

Affiliation Department of Virology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Jonathan Lipscomb

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Lieven J. Stuyver

Affiliation Janssen Diagnostics BVBA, Beerse, Belgium

Gilda Tachedjian

Affiliation Tachedjian Laboratory, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

John Baxter

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Giota Touloumi

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece

Clara Lehmann

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Andrew Owen

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Andrew Phillips

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology & Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

for the INSIGHT Strategies for Management of Antiretroviral Therapy (SMART) Study Group

See Reference 1 for the complete list of SMART investigators.

Competing Interests

Gilda Tachedjian is an academic editor for PLOS ONE. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Lieven J. Stuyver is an employee of Tibotec-Virco Virology BVBA (Beerse, Belgium), a company which commercializes HIV drug resistance testing technology. 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, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMG AP ZF JB G. Tachedjian CL G. Touloumi. Performed the experiments: AMG JAJ CB AO JL LJS. Analyzed the data: AMG AP ZF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB G. Tachedjian CL G. Touloumi. Wrote the paper: AMG JAJ CB AO LJS AP ZF JB.