Figure 2. Patients to become post-treatment controllers have higher viral loads and lower CD4+ T cell counts than HIV controllers during primary HIV infection.

CD4+ T cell counts (A) and plasma viral load (B) during the primary infection for the patients enrolled in the ANRS PRIMO cohort who later exhibited spontaneous control of infection (preHIC; n = 8) [16], for the PTCs included in our study (n = 14) and for the patients in the ANRS PRIMO cohort who did not control infection (n = 1,245). The median and the 10^th and 90^th percentiles are shown for each group.