About the Authors
- Norbert Donhauser
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, German National Reference Centre for Retroviruses, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- Kathrin Pritschet
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, German National Reference Centre for Retroviruses, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- Martin Helm
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Affiliation Praxis Dr. G. Abelein/Dr. M. Helm, Nürnberg, Germany
- Thomas Harrer
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Affiliation Department for Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- Philipp Schuster
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, German National Reference Centre for Retroviruses, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- Moritz Ries
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, German National Reference Centre for Retroviruses, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- Georg Bischof
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Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, German National Reference Centre for Retroviruses, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- Jörg Vollmer
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Affiliation Pfizer Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Unit, Coley Pharmaceutical GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Sigrun Smola
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Affiliation Institute of Virology, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany
- Barbara Schmidt
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* E-mail: baschmid@viro.med.uni-erlangen.de
Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, German National Reference Centre for Retroviruses, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
- for the German Competence Network HIV/AIDS
Competing Interests
Jörg Vollmer has a potential conflict of interest as he is an employee of Pfizer and provided the CpG oligodeoxynucleotides used in the study. 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: ND KP PS MR SS BS. Performed the experiments: ND KP PS MR GB. Analyzed the data: ND BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH TH JV SS. Wrote the paper: ND TH SS BS. Primary author: BS.