About the Authors

Meritxell Llorens-Revull

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Liver Diseases-Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Liver Unit, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain

Maria Isabel Costafreda

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Liver Diseases-Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Liver Unit, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain, Transfusion Safety Laboratory, Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST), Barcelona, Spain

Angie Rico

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Liver Diseases-Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Liver Unit, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Transfusion Safety Laboratory, Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST), Barcelona, Spain

Mercedes Guerrero-Murillo

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Liver Diseases-Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Liver Unit, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

Maria Eugenia Soria

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain, Department of Clinical Microbiology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, UAM, Madrid, Spain

Sofía Píriz-Ruzo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Liver Diseases-Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Liver Unit, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

Elena Vargas-Accarino

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Liver Diseases-Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Liver Unit, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

Pablo Gabriel-Medina

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Liver Pathology Laboratory, Biochemistry and Microbiology Unit, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

Francisco Rodríguez-Frías

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, Liver Pathology Laboratory, Biochemistry and Microbiology Unit, Vall d’Hebron Hospital Universitari (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain, Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

Mar Riveiro-Barciela

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Liver Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

Celia Perales

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain, Department of Clinical Microbiology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, UAM, Madrid, Spain

Josep Quer

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Liver Diseases-Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Liver Unit, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain

Silvia Sauleda

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Transfusion Safety Laboratory, Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST), Barcelona, Spain

Juan Ignacio Esteban

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Liver Diseases-Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Liver Unit, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, Liver Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (HUVH), Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Barcelona, Spain

Marta Bes

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliations Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Transfusion Safety Laboratory, Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.