Detection of Microbial Translocation in HIV and SIV Infection Using the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate Assay is Masked by Serum and Plasma

• Ashwin Balagopal ,

  * E-mail: abalago1@jhmi.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Lucio Gama,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Veronica Franco,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Julia N. Russell,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jeffrey Quinn,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yvonne Higgins,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Laura M. Smeaton,

  Affiliation Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Janice E. Clements,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• David L. Thomas,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Amita Gupta,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• for the NWCS 319 and ACTG 5175 study team