About the Authors

Jintanat Ananworanich

jintanat.a@searchthailand.org

Affiliations South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, HIV-NAT, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences – United States Component, Bangkok, Thailand

Alexandra Schuetz

Affiliations Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences – United States Component, Bangkok, Thailand, United States Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Claire Vandergeeten

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Irini Sereti

Affiliation Clinical and Molecular Retrovirology Section/Laboratory of Immunoregulation, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Mark de Souza

Affiliations Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences – United States Component, Bangkok, Thailand, United States Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Rungsun Rerknimitr

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand

Robin Dewar

Affiliation Virus Isolation and Serology Laboratory Applied and Developmental Research Directorate Science Applications International Corporation-Frederick, Inc. National Cancer Institute - Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Mary Marovich

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Frits van Griensven

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, Thailand Ministry of Public Health – United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration, Ministry of Public Health, Amphur Muang, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Rafick Sekaly

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Suteeraporn Pinyakorn

Affiliations South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, HIV-NAT, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand

Nittaya Phanuphak

Affiliations South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand

Rapee Trichavaroj

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences – United States Component, Bangkok, Thailand

Wiriya Rutvisuttinunt

Affiliation Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences – United States Component, Bangkok, Thailand

Nitiya Chomchey

Affiliations South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand

Robert Paris

Affiliations Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences – United States Component, Bangkok, Thailand, United States Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Sheila Peel

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Victor Valcour

Affiliations South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, Memory and Aging Center, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Frank Maldarelli

Affiliation In Vivo Biology Group, National Institutes of Health, Magnuson Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Nicolas Chomont

Affiliation Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

Nelson Michael

Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Praphan Phanuphak

Affiliations South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, HIV-NAT, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand

Jerome H. Kim

Affiliations South East Asia Research Collaboration with Hawaii, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Retrovirology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences – United States Component, Bangkok, Thailand, United States Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

on behalf of the RV254/SEARCH 010 Study Group

Competing Interests

JA has received speaker's fee and/or honorarium from Abbott, Gilead and ViiV. 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: JA AS IS MdS JK VV NM PP. Performed the experiments: JA MdS CV IS RR RD MM N. Chomont NP RS RT WR S Peel FM N. Chomchey. Analyzed the data: S Pinyakorn RP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS CV IS MdS RD MM FvG RS NP RT WR N. Chomont S Peel FM N. Chomchey. Wrote the paper: JA AS MdS N. Chomont JK. Gave input in the protocol development, interpreted the final data analyses and read and critically commented on the paper: JA AS CV IS MdS RR RD MM FvG RS S Peel NP RT WR N. Chomont RP S Pinyakorn VV FM N. Chomchey NM DP JK.