About the Authors

Yingpu Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Troels K. H. Scheel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America, Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program, Department of Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre Hospital, and Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Joseph M. Luna

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Hachung Chung

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Eiko Nishiuchi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Margaret A. Scull

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Natalia Echeverría

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America, Laboratorio de Virología Molecular, Centro de Investigaciones Nucleares, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Inna Ricardo-Lax

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Amit Kapoor

Roles Conceptualization, Resources

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States of America, Center for Vaccines and Immunity, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States of America

Ian W. Lipkin

Roles Resources

Affiliation Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health and College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

Thomas J. Divers

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Douglas F. Antczak

Roles Resources

Affiliation Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Bud C. Tennant

† Deceased.

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Charles M. Rice

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

ricec@rockefeller.edu

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.