About the Authors
- Karin Neukam
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* E-mail: karin.neukam@gmail.com
Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville, Spain
- Nuria Espinosa
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Affiliation Service of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain
- Antonio Collado
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almeria, Spain
- Marcial Delgado-Fernández
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Regional de Málaga. Malaga, Spain
- Patricia Jiménez-Aguilar
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Puerto Real, Puerto Real, Spain
- Antonio Rivero-Juárez
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain
- Victor Hontañón-Antoñana
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Affiliation HIV Unit, Service of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario La Paz/IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain
- Ana Gómez-Berrocal
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Affiliation Service of Internal/Infectious Medicine, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain
- Josefa Ruiz-Morales
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Malaga, Spain
- Dolores Merino
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Complejo Hospitalario de Huelva, Huelva, Spain
- Ana Carrero
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases/HIV, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
- Francisco Téllez
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital La Línea, AGS Campo de Gibraltar, La Linea de la Concepcion, Spain
- María José Ríos
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain
- José Hernández-Quero
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Spain
- María de Lagarde-Sebastián
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Affiliation HIV Unit. Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
- Inés Pérez-Camacho
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Affiliation Tropical Medicine Unit, Hospital Poniente, El Ejido, Spain
- Francisco Vera-Méndez
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Affiliation Infectious Medicine Section, Hospital Universitario Santa Lucia, Cartagena, Spain
- Juan Macías
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville, Spain
- Juan A. Pineda
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Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Valme, Seville, Spain
- on behalf of the hEPAtic Study Group
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¶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.