About the Authors

Joy E. Tomlinson

Contributed equally to this work with: Joy E. Tomlinson, Raphael Wolfisberg

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

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

Raphael Wolfisberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Joy E. Tomlinson, Raphael Wolfisberg

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

Affiliation Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP), Department of Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre Hospital and Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ulrik Fahnøe

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP), Department of Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre Hospital and Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Himanshu Sharma

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Vaccines and Immunity, Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Randall W. Renshaw

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Louise Nielsen

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP), Department of Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre Hospital and Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Eiko Nishiuchi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Christina Holm

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP), Department of Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre Hospital and Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Edward Dubovi

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Brad R. Rosenberg

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Bud C. Tennant

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

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

Jens Bukh

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP), Department of Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre Hospital and Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Amit Kapoor

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Vaccines and Immunity, Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Thomas J. Divers

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

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

Charles M. Rice

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Gerlinde R. Van de Walle

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

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

Troels K. H. Scheel

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

tscheel@sund.ku.dk

Affiliations Copenhagen Hepatitis C Program (CO-HEP), Department of Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre Hospital and Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.