Current knowledge and future perspectives on acute hepatitis C 1

1.Dept of Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2. Dept 5 of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands 3. NIHR 6 Biomedical Research Unit in Gastroenterology and the Liver, University of Nottingham, 7 Nottingham, UK 4. Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France 5. Cluster Infectious Diseases, 8 Dept of Research, Public Health Service, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 6. Dept of Infectious 9 Diseases, CINIMA, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 7. NDM and 10 Jenner Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 8. Dept of Infectious Diseases, Ondokuz 11 Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey 9. Dept of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, 12 Germany. On behalf of the European Study Group of Viral Hepatitis10. (ESGVH). 13