High Transmitter CD4+ T-Cell Count Shortly after the Time of Transmission in a Study of African Serodiscordant Couples.

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Published in PLoS One on August 20, 2015

Authors

Etienne Karita1, Matt A Price2, Shabir Lakhi3, William Kilembe3, Anatoli Kamali4, Eugene Ruzagira4, Eric Hunter5, Paul Farmer6, Susan Allen7, Gwynn Stevens8, Paramesh Chetty8, Sabrina Welsh9, Annie Yang9, Jill Gilmour8, Pat Fast9, IAVI Africa HIV Prevention Partnership

Author Affiliations

1: Projet San Francisco, Kigali, Rwanda.
2: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America; UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
3: Zambia Emory HIV Research Project, Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe, Zambia.
4: Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, Masaka and Entebbe, Uganda.
5: Projet San Francisco, Kigali, Rwanda; Zambia Emory HIV Research Project, Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe, Zambia; Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
6: Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
7: School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
8: Human Immunology Laboratory, IAVI, London, United Kingdom.
9: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America.

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