About the Authors

Oriel Nissim

Contributed equally to this work with: Oriel Nissim, Marta Melis

Affiliation Hepatic Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Marta Melis

Contributed equally to this work with: Oriel Nissim, Marta Melis

Affiliation Hepatic Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Giacomo Diaz

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

David E. Kleiner

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ashley Tice

Affiliation Hepatic Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Giovanni Fantola

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center, Brotzu Hospital, Cagliari, Italy

Fausto Zamboni

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center, Brotzu Hospital, Cagliari, Italy

Lopa Mishra

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Patrizia Farci

pfarci@niaid.nih.gov

Affiliation Hepatic Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF. Performed the experiments: AT ON MM PF. Analyzed the data: ON MM AT GF FZ LM GD PF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FZ. Wrote the paper: ON MM GD DEK PF. Performed liver pathology: DEK. Provided liver specimens: FZ.