About the Authors

María José Ramírez-Lázaro

Contributed equally to this work with: María José Ramírez-Lázaro, Sergio Lario

Affiliations Digestive Diseases Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Institut Universitari Parc Taulí, Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Sergio Lario

Contributed equally to this work with: María José Ramírez-Lázaro, Sergio Lario

Affiliations Digestive Diseases Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Institut Universitari Parc Taulí, Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Alex Casalots

Affiliation Pathology Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Sabadell, Spain

Esther Sanfeliu

Affiliation Pathology Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Sabadell, Spain

Loreto Boix

Affiliations Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain, BCLC Group, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Pilar García-Iglesias

Affiliation Digestive Diseases Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Institut Universitari Parc Taulí, Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain

Jordi Sánchez-Delgado

Affiliations Digestive Diseases Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Institut Universitari Parc Taulí, Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Antònia Montserrat

Affiliations Digestive Diseases Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Institut Universitari Parc Taulí, Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Maria Rosa Bella-Cueto

Affiliation Pathology Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Sabadell, Spain

Marta Gallach

Affiliation Digestive Diseases Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Institut Universitari Parc Taulí, Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain

Isabel Sanfeliu

Affiliations Infectious Disease Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Institut Universitari Parc Taulí, Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain, Spanish Network for the Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI RD06/0018), Sevilla, Spain

Ferran Segura

Affiliations Infectious Disease Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Institut Universitari Parc Taulí, Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain, Spanish Network for the Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI RD06/0018), Sevilla, Spain

Xavier Calvet

xcalvet@tauli.cat

Affiliations Digestive Diseases Department, Hospital de Sabadell, Institut Universitari Parc Taulí, Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJR-L SL XC. Performed the experiments: MJR-L SL AC. Analyzed the data: MJR-L SL XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LB PG-I JS-D AM MG IS FS. Wrote the paper: MJR-L SL XC. Analysis and interpretation of data and review of histological preparations: ES MRB-C.