About the Authors
- Karin Neukam
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* E-mail: karin.neukam@gmail.com
Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville, Spain, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Seville, Spain
- José A. Mira
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Affiliation Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville, Spain
- Antonio Collado
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Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almeria, Spain
- Antonio Rivero-Juárez
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Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almeria, Spain
- Patricia Monje-Agudo
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Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville, Spain, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Seville, Spain
- Josefa Ruiz-Morales
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Malaga, Spain
- María José Ríos
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Macarena, Seville, Spain
- Dolores Merino
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Affiliation Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez. Huelva, Spain
- Francisco Téllez
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital de La Línea de la Concepción, Cadiz, Spain
- Inés Pérez-Camacho
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Affiliation Unit of Tropical Medicine, Hospital Poniente, El Ejido, Spain
- María Carmen Gálvez-Contreras
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Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almeria, Spain
- Antonio Rivero
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia, Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC), University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
- Juan A. Pineda
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville, Spain
- HEPAVIR SEG-HEP-2007 Study Group of the Sociedad Andaluza de Enfermedades Infecciosas (SAEI)
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¶Complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
K.N. has received lecture fees from Janssen-Cilag, Roche, Bristol-Meyers Squibb and Merck Sharp & Dohme and has received research support from Janssen-Cilag, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Gilead Sciences and Abbott Pharmaceuticals. A.R.J has received lecture fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer, ViiV Healthcare and Roche. D.M. reports having received consultancy fees from Janssen Cilag, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, AbbVie and ViiH Healthcare. A.C. reports having received consultancy fees from Janssen-Cilag, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Pfizer and AbbVie. A.R. reports having received consulting fees from GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Schering-Plough, Janssen-Cilag and Boehringer Ingelheim. He has received research support from GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, Abbott Pharmaceuticals and Boehringer Ingelheim, and has received lecture fees from GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Janssen-Cilag, Boehringer Ingelheim and Schering-Plough. J.A.P. reports having received consulting fees from GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Schering-Plough, Janssen-Cilag and Boehringer Ingelheim. He has received research support from GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough, Abbott Pharmaceuticals and Boehringer Ingelheim, and has received lecture fees from GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Janssen-Cilag, Boehringer Ingelheim and Schering-Plough. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KN JAM JAP. Performed the experiments: KN JAM AC ARJ PMA JRM MJR DM FT IPC MCGC AR JAP. Analyzed the data: KN JAM JAP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KN JAM AC ARJ PMA JRM MJR DM FT IPC MCGC AR JAP. Wrote the paper: KN JAM AC ARJ PMA JRM MJR DM FT IPC MCGC AR JAP.