Gómez L Jaime, DVM, PhD, Professor, Research Scientist, Department of Anatomy and Comparative Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Córdoba, Córdoba 14071, Spain

Seyed Mohammad Jazayeri, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Director, Hepatitis B Lab, Department of Virology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 6446-15155, Iran

Samia A Kamal, DDS, PhD, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Virology, Animal Health Research Institute, Cairo 11435, Egypt

Hideya Kawasaki, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Second Pathology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu 431-3192, Japan

Abdelmalik Ibrahim Khalafalla, PhD, Professor, Department of Veterinary Laboratories, Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority, Abu Dhabi 052150, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Bum-Joon Kim, PhD, Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciense, Microbiology and Immunology, and Liver Research Institute, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul 110799, South Korea

Brygida Knysz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Liver Diseases and Acquired Immune Deficiences, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw 51-171, Poland

Alok Kumar, MBBS, MD, Doctor, Full Professor, Professor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Bridgetown N/A, Barbados

Majid Laassri, PhD, Senior Scientist, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, CBER, FDA, Rockville MD 20852-1448, United States

Sunil K Lal, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Monash University (Sunway campus), Selangor 47500 , Malaysia

Cheng-Wen Lin, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, China Medical University, Taichung 404, Taiwan

Zhen Lin, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, United States

Hsin-Fu Liu, PhD, Associate Professor, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Medical Research, Mackay Memorial Hospital, New Taipei 25160, Taiwan

Josep M Llibre, PhD, Professor, the Internal Medicine Dept the Hospital, Autonomous University of Barcelona, at the University Hospital, Badalona 08916, Spain

Juan E Ludert, PhD, Professor, Department of Infectomics and Molecular Pathogenesis, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, Mexico City 317300, Mexico

Igor S Lukashevich, DSc, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxucology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, NIH Regional Bio-containment Laboratory, Louisville, KY 40202, United States

Fabrizio Maggi, MD, PhD, Medical Assistant, Post Doctor, Virology Unit, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa 56127, Italy

Niwat Maneekarn, DVM, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Chiang Mai University, Maung Chiang Mai 50200, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Roberto Manfredi, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Bologna, S. Orsola Hospital, Bologna I-40138, Italy

Karim Mardani, PhD, Professor, Department of Food Hygiene and Quality Control, Urmia University, Urmia 5756151818, west Azerbaijan, Iran

Barry J Margulies, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252, United States

Jochen Mattner, MD, Associate Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Infection Immunology, Mattner, J (reprint author), Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, Mikrobiol Inst Klin Mikrobiol Immunol & Hyg, Univ Klinikum Erlangen, Wasserturmstr 3-5, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany., Erlangen 90154, Germany

JoséA Melero, PhD, Director, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid 28220, Spain

Krishan K Pandey, PhD, Professor, Institute for Molecular Virology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO 63104, United States

George V Papatheodoridis, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Professor, Academic Department of Gastroenterology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Laiko General Hospital, Athens 11527, Greece

Jorge V Pavan, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Sciences, National University of Cordoba, Córdoba 5000, Argentina

Bruno Pozzetto, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Infectious Agents and Hygiene, University-Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne 42055, France

Josep Quer, PhD, Associate Professor, Laboratori Malalties Hepàtiques 006, Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR-HUVH). Liver Unit, Barcelona 08035, Spain

Sonia M Raboni, MD, PhD, Manager, Professor, Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Paraná/Fiocruz, Brazil, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 80060-900, Brazil

Julius Rajcani, DSc, MD, Associate Professor, Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 84515, Slovakia

Denis Rasschaert, PhD, Professor, Department of Virology, Francois Rabelais University, Parc, Tours 37000, France

Michael Roner, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, The University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, United States

Daniel Ruzek, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice CZ-37005, Czech Republic

Juan-Carlos Saiz, PhD, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, INIA, Madrid 28040, Spain

Irma saulle, PhD, Academic Research, Assistant Professor, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences "L. Sacco", University of Milan, , Italy

Ayca A Sayiner, MD, Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology, Dokuz Eylul University Medical Faculty, Izmir 35340, Turkey

Noemi Sevilla, PhD, Doctor, Professor, Center of research in Animal Health (CISA-INIA Ctra., Algete El Casar sn, Madrid 28130, Spain

SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi, MD, MPhil, PhD, Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher, Iranian Reseach Center for HIV/AIDS, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Tehran , Iran

Wen-Ling Shih, PhD, Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 91201, Taiwan

Ikuo Shoji, MD, PhD, Professor, Division of Infectious Disease Control, Center for Infectious Diseases Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe 650-0017, Hyogo, Japan

Andrej Steyer, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana SI-1000, Slovenia

Tetsuro Suzuki, PhD, Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu 4313192, Japan

Hong Tang, MD, PhD, Director, Center of Infectious Diseases, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China

qiyi Tang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC 20059, United States

Tetsuya Toyoda, MD, PhD, Doctor, Professor, Choju Medical Institute, Fukushimura Hospital, Toyohashi 441-8124, Japan

Sharof M Tugizov, DSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, Division of Infectious Diseases, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States

Andi Utama, PhD, Professor, Molecular Epidemiology Division, Mochtar Riady Institute For Nanotechnology, Tangerang 15810, Indonesia

GNANAVEL VENKATESAN, PhD, Research Scientist, Senior Scientist, Department of Veterinary Virology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Nainital 263138, UTTARANCHAL, India

Leyi Wang, DA, DVM, PhD, Assistant Professor, Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61802, United States

Jane H Wang, MD, PhD, Director, R&D Section, B&H Biotechnologies, Chicago, IL 60612, United States