1. Department of Internal Medicine and Liver Center St. Josefs‐Hospital Wiesbaden and Viral Hepatitis Research Group, Goethe‐University Hospital Frankfurt Frankfurt Germany
2. Department of Medicine I University Hospital Bonn Bonn Germany
3. German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF) Partner‐site Bonn‐Cologne Bonn Germany
4. Medical Institute of Transcultural Medicine Bielefeld Germany
5. Gastroenterologische Praxis im Marienkrankenhaus Kassel Germany
6. Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and of Clinical Pathology Geneva University Hospitals Geneva Switzerland
7. AbbVie Deutschland GmBH Co. KG Wiesbaden Germany
8. AbbVie Inc. North Chicago Illinois
9. Department of Internal Medicine II, School of Medicine, University Hospital Rechts der Isar Technical University of Munich Munich Germany
10. German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich Munich Germany
11. CONCEPT, Center for Addiction‐Medicine Munich Germany
12. Department of Gastroenterology Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School Hannover Germany
13. Leberstiftungs‐GmbH Deutschland Hannover Germany
14. First Department of Medicine University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg‐University Mainz Germany
15. Cirrhosis Centre Mainz (CCM) University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg‐University Mainz Germany