About the Authors

Mario Frias

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

Antonio Rivero-Juarez

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

Francisco Tellez

Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Unit, Hospital La Línea, AGS Campo de Gibraltar, Cádiz, Spain

Monserrat Perez-Perez

Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Unit, Hospital La Línea, AGS Campo de Gibraltar, Cádiz, Spain

Angela Camacho

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

Isabel Machuca

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

Sandra Lorenzo-Moncada

Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Unit, Hospital La Línea, AGS Campo de Gibraltar, Cádiz, Spain

Pedro Lopez-Lopez

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

Antonio Rivero

ariveror@gmail.com

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

for the Grupo de Estudio de Hepatitis Virales (HEPAVIR) of the Sociedad Andaluza de Enfermedades Infecciosas (SAEI)

Membership of the Grupo de Estudio de Hepatitis Virales (HEPAVIR) of the Sociedad Andaluza de Enfermedades Infecciosas (SAEI) is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ARJ FT AR. Data curation: MF MPP AC IM SLM PLL AR. Formal analysis: MF ARJ FT MPP IM SLM PLL AR. Funding acquisition: AC AR. Investigation: MF ARJ FT MPP AC SLM AR. Methodology: MF ARJ FT AC IM AR. Project administration: ARJ AR. Software: MF ARJ. Supervision: ARJ FT AR. Validation: ARJ FT AR. Writing – original draft: MF ARJ AR. Writing – review & editing: MF ARJ AR FT MPP AC IM SLM PLL AR.