About the Authors
- Sara Lodi
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Affiliations Medical Research Council, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Andrew Phillips
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Affiliation University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Sarah Fidler
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Affiliation Imperial College NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- David Hawkins
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Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Richard Gilson
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Affiliation Mortimer Market Centre and University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom
- Ken McLean
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Affiliation Charing Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Martin Fisher
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Affiliation Brighton and Sussex University Hospital National Health Service Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Frank Post
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Affiliation King’s College, London, United Kingdom
- Anne M. Johnson
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Affiliation University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Louise Walker-Nthenda
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Affiliation Medical Research Council, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- David Dunn
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Affiliation Medical Research Council, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Kholoud Porter
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* E-mail: kp@ctu.mrc.ac.uk
Affiliation Medical Research Council, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- on behalf of the UK Register of HIV
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¶Membership of the UK Register of HIV Seroconverters is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
KP has received an honorarium from Tibotec. AP has received reimbursement for either/or: attending a symposium; a fee for speaking; a fee for organising education; funds for research; funds for a member of staff; fees for consulting from various pharmaceutical companies including: Roche, BMS, GSK, Abbott, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Gilead, Tibotec, Oxxon Therapeutics. 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.
Author Contributions
Analyzed the data: SL. Wrote the manuscript: SL KP. Concept and design: SL KP AP. Statistical analyses: SL. Interpretation of the data: SL KP. Drafting of the manuscript: SL KP. Critical revision of the manuscript: SL AP SF DH RG KM MF FP AMJ LWN DD KP. Acquisition of data: SF DH RG KM MF LWN DD FP. Securing funding: KP DD. Had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis: SL.