About the Authors

Bastian Neesgaard

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Bastian.neesgaard@regionh.dk

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark

Morten Ruhwald

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Research, Section of Human Immunology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

Henrik B. Krarup

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Molecular Diagnostics, Clinical Biochemistry, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Nina Weis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

At initial submission we had noted that co-author Morten Ruhwald was registered as inventor on a patent application disclosing IP-10 based liver fibrosis monitoring, using DBS, which could be viewed as a conflict-of-interest. However, this application was dropped prior to submission. Thus, it does not constitute a conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.