About the Authors

Karin Neukam

karin.neukam@gmail.com

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville, Spain

Nuria Espinosa

Affiliation Service of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain

Antonio Collado

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almeria, Spain

Marcial Delgado-Fernández

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Regional de Málaga. Malaga, Spain

Patricia Jiménez-Aguilar

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Puerto Real, Puerto Real, Spain

Antonio Rivero-Juárez

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain

Victor Hontañón-Antoñana

Affiliation HIV Unit, Service of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario La Paz/IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain

Ana Gómez-Berrocal

Affiliation Service of Internal/Infectious Medicine, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain

Josefa Ruiz-Morales

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Malaga, Spain

Dolores Merino

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Complejo Hospitalario de Huelva, Huelva, Spain

Ana Carrero

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases/HIV, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

Francisco Téllez

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital La Línea, AGS Campo de Gibraltar, La Linea de la Concepcion, Spain

María José Ríos

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain

José Hernández-Quero

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Spain

María de Lagarde-Sebastián

Affiliation HIV Unit. Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain

Inés Pérez-Camacho

Affiliation Tropical Medicine Unit, Hospital Poniente, El Ejido, Spain

Francisco Vera-Méndez

Affiliation Infectious Medicine Section, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucia, Cartagena, Spain

Juan Macías

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville, Spain

Juan A. Pineda

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville, Spain

on behalf of the hEPAtic Study Group

Membership of the hEPAtic Study Group is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

KN 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. AC reports having received consultancy fees from Janssen-Cilag, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Pfizer and AbbVie. ARJ has received lecture fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Pfizer, ViiV Healthcare and Roche. DM reports having received consultancy fees from Janssen Cilag, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, AbbVie and ViiH Healthcare. JM has received lectures fees from Roche, Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp & Dome, Boehringer Ingelheim, Janssen-Cilag and Bristol-Myers Squibb and consulting fees from Roche, Gilead Sciences, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers-Squibb and Merck Sharp & Dome. JAP 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. All other authors: none to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KN JAP. Performed the experiments: KN NE A. Collado MD-F PJ-A AR-J VH-A AG-B JR-M DM A. Carrero FT MJR JH-Q ML-S IP-C FV-M JM JAP. Analyzed the data: KN JAP. Wrote the paper: KN JAP.