1 Department of Internal Medicine, St. Louis University Liver Center, St. Louis, Missouri;2 Department of Infectious Diseases, Medical University of Silesia, Chorzow, Poland;3 Pôle Hépato-Digestif, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Nouvel Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, France;4 Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland;5 Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania;6 Foundation for the Study of Viral Hepatitis, Madrid, Spain;7 Internal Medicine Clinic, Colentina Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania;8 Department of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland;9 Unit for the Clinical Management of Digestive Diseases and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Valme University Hospital, Sevilla, Spain;10 Department of Gastroenterology, Soroka Medical Center, Beersheba, Israel;11 Transgene, Illkirch, France;12 Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany