About the Authors

Julia Dietz

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Dietz, Daniel Rupp

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Daniel Rupp

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Dietz, Daniel Rupp

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Simone Susser

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Johannes Vermehren

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Kai-Henrik Peiffer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Natalie Filmann

Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics and Mathematical Modeling, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Dimitra Bon

Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics and Mathematical Modeling, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Thomas Kuntzen

Affiliation Klinik für Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, Universitätsspital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Stefan Mauss

Affiliation Zentrum für HIV und Hepatogastroenterologie, Düsseldorf, Germany

Georgios Grammatikos

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Dany Perner

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Caterina Berkowski

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Eva Herrmann

Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics and Mathematical Modeling, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Stefan Zeuzem

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Ralf Bartenschlager

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Christoph Sarrazin

sarrazin@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD DR SS RB CS. Performed the experiments: JD DR DP CB. Analyzed the data: JD DR SS NF DB EH RB CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JV KHP TK SM GG RB SZ CS. Wrote the paper: JD DR RB CS EH SZ.