About the Authors

Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico

Yanink Caro-Vega

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico

Bryan E. Shepherd

Affiliation Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Firas Wehbe

Affiliation Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Carina Cesar

Affiliation Investigaciones Clínicas, Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Claudia Cortés

Affiliation Fundación Arriarán, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Denis Padgett

Affiliation Instituto Hondureño de Seguro Social y Hospital Escuela, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Serena Koenig

Affiliations GHESKIO/Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Port au Prince, Haiti, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eduardo Gotuzzo

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru

Pedro Cahn

Affiliation Investigaciones Clínicas, Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Catherine McGowan

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Daniel Masys

Affiliation Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Juan Sierra-Madero

jsmadero@yahoo.com

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico

on behalf of the CCASAnet Team

Competing Interests

BCR: speaker for BMS and MSD and grant for clinical trial of MSD; C. Cortés: speaker for MSD and GSK; EG: received grants from Pfizer and MSD; PC: board membership of MSD, GSK, Pfizer, Tibotec, Shering Plough, and speaker for Abbot, Tibotec, BMS, GSK, MSD, Pfizer and Boeringer Ingelheim; JSM: speaker for ViiV and Stendahl and has received grant for research from Pfizer. Authors YCV, BES, FW, C. Cesar, DP, SK, CM, and DM have no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: BCR BES JSM. Conceived and designed this study: BCR JSM. Collected the data and were responsible for the data cohort: FW C. Cesar C. Cortés DP SK EG BCR. Had access to the full data: BCR YCV FW. Responsible for the statistical analysis and presentation of the results: YCV BES. Collected the data and references for discussing the results: FW C. Cesar C. Cortés DP SK EG BCR. Reviewed and approved the manuscript: BCR YCV BES FW C. Cesar C. Cortés DP SK EG PC CM DM JSM.