About the Authors
- Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez
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Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico
- Yanink Caro-Vega
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Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición, Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico
- Bryan E. Shepherd
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Affiliation Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Firas Wehbe
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Affiliation Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Carina Cesar
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Affiliation Investigaciones Clínicas, Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Claudia Cortés
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Affiliation Fundación Arriarán, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Denis Padgett
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Affiliation Instituto Hondureño de Seguro Social y Hospital Escuela, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Serena Koenig
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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
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Peru
- Pedro Cahn
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Affiliation Investigaciones Clínicas, Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Catherine McGowan
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Daniel Masys
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Affiliation Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Juan Sierra-Madero
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* E-mail: 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.