About the Authors

Kelly Safreed-Harmon

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

Affiliations CHIP, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Kristina L. Hetherington

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Soo Aleman

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo Aleman, Hannu Alho, Olav Dalgard, Tove Frisch, Magnus Gottfredsson, Nina Weis

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet/Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Hannu Alho

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo Aleman, Hannu Alho, Olav Dalgard, Tove Frisch, Magnus Gottfredsson, Nina Weis

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Abdominal Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Olav Dalgard

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo Aleman, Hannu Alho, Olav Dalgard, Tove Frisch, Magnus Gottfredsson, Nina Weis

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway

Tove Frisch

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo Aleman, Hannu Alho, Olav Dalgard, Tove Frisch, Magnus Gottfredsson, Nina Weis

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Riksföreningen Hepatit C, Månkarbo, Sweden

Magnus Gottfredsson

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo Aleman, Hannu Alho, Olav Dalgard, Tove Frisch, Magnus Gottfredsson, Nina Weis

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland

Nina Weis

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo Aleman, Hannu Alho, Olav Dalgard, Tove Frisch, Magnus Gottfredsson, Nina Weis

Roles Methodology, 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

Jeffrey V. Lazarus

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

Jeffrey.Lazarus@regionh.dk

Affiliations CHIP, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

on behalf of the Hep-Nordic Study Group

Members of the Hep-Nordic Study Group are identified in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

Jeffrey Victor Lazarus, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, and Kristina L. Hetherington received funding from Gilead Sciences, a commercial company. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.