About the Authors

Martin Lagging

martin.lagging@medfak.gu.se

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/Virology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Galia Askarieh

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/Virology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Francesco Negro

Affiliation University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Stephanie Bibert

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jonas Söderholm

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/Virology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Johan Westin

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/Virology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Magnus Lindh

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/Virology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Ana Romero

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/Virology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Gabriele Missale

Affiliation Azienda Ospedaliera di Parma, Parma, Italy

Carlo Ferrari

Affiliation Azienda Ospedaliera di Parma, Parma, Italy

Avidan U. Neumann

Affiliation Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Jean-Michel Pawlotsky

Affiliation Hôpital Henri Mondor - Université Paris XII, Créteil, France

Bart L. Haagmans

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Stefan Zeuzem

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, J. W. Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Pierre-Yves Bochud

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierre-Yves Bochud, Kristoffer Hellstrand

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Service, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Kristoffer Hellstrand

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierre-Yves Bochud, Kristoffer Hellstrand

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases/Virology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

for the DITTO-HCV Study Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML PYB KH. Performed the experiments: GA SB JS AR PYB JMP. Analyzed the data: ML PYB KH FN AUN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KH BLH PYB FN SB AR GM CF AUN JMP SZ. Wrote the paper: ML KH PYB FN.