Patient characteristics table.

For this study, we took all the UK HIV-1 Subtype B infected participants that had been enrolled in the SPARTAC trial and for which exact times of initiation and cessation of both short course ART and, if applicable, long term ART were known. The resulting cohort of 125 participants had similar characteristics to the whole trial cohort except that all the UK HIV-1B infected participants recruited were male. Participants in the UK cohort were also recruited slightly earlier in infection on average, and (perhaps consequently) had slightly higher viral loads on average at recruitment compared to the trial as a whole.Patient characteristics table.