About the Authors

Piyawat Komolmit

Contributed equally to this work with: Piyawat Komolmit, Kriangsak Charoensuk

pkomolmit@yahoo.co.uk

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and Center of Excellence in Liver Diseases: King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand

Kriangsak Charoensuk

Contributed equally to this work with: Piyawat Komolmit, Kriangsak Charoensuk

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and Center of Excellence in Liver Diseases: King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal medicine, Buddhachinaraj Hospital School of Medicine, Phitsanulok, Thailand

Kessarin Thanapirom

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and Center of Excellence in Liver Diseases: King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand

Sirinporn Suksawatamnuay

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and Center of Excellence in Liver Diseases: King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand

Panarat Thaimai

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and Center of Excellence in Liver Diseases: King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand

Chintana Chirathaworn

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Chulalongkorn university, Bangkok, Thailand

Yong Poovorawan

Affiliation Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Competing Interests

All authors have declared that no completing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PK KC. Data curation: PK KC. Formal analysis: PK KC. Funding acquisition: PK YP KC. Investigation: SS PT CC. Methodology: PK KC CC. Project administration: PK KC. Resources: SS PT YP CC. Supervision: PK. Validation: KC KT. Writing – original draft: PK KC. Writing – review & editing: PK KC.