About the Authors

Marcus M. Mücke

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Benjamin Maasoumy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Julia Dietz

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

Victoria T. Mücke

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

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

Christian O. Simon

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA, United States of America

Jesse A. Canchola

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA, United States of America

Marcus Cornberg

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Ed G. Marins

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA, United States of America

Michael P. Manns

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Stefan Zeuzem

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Heiner Wedemeyer

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Christoph Sarrazin

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine 1, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Department of Gastroenterology, St. Josefs-Hospital, Wiesbaden, Germany

Johannes Vermehren

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Johannes.vermehren@kgu.de

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

Competing Interests

Roche Diagnostics funded this study, provided the cobas HCV RNA kits, and Christian O. Simon, Jesse A. Canchola and Ed G Marins are employees of Roche Diagnostics. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.