Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany. Electronic address: kerstin.herzer@uk-essen.de.
• ² Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany.
• ³ Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Surgery Campus Charité Mitte/Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine I, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany.
• ⁸ Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ¹⁰ I. Dept. of Medicine, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
• ¹¹ Department of Medicine B, Münster University Hospital (UKM), Münster, Germany.
• ¹² Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
• ¹³ Leberstiftungs-GmbH Deutschland, Hannover, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany; Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany; Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Leberstiftungs-GmbH Deutschland, Hannover, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Hannover-Braunschweig Site, Germany; Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany.