About the Authors

Cyrille Féray

cyrille.feray@gmail.com

Affiliation Inserm 955, Hopital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France

Julie Bouscaillou

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unité d’Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Paris, France

Bruno Falissard

Affiliation Unité INSERM 669, La maison de Solenn, Paris, France

Mostafa K. Mohamed

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Naglaa Arafa

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Iman Bakr

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Mostafa El-Hoseiny

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Mai El Daly

Affiliations National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Shebeen El-Kom, Menufia, Egypt, Viral Hepatitis Research Laboratory, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Sherif El-Kafrawy

Affiliations National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Shebeen El-Kom, Menufia, Egypt, Viral Hepatitis Research Laboratory, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Sabine Plancoulaine

Affiliation Unité INSERM 550, Paris, France

Mohamed Abdel-Hamid

Affiliations Viral Hepatitis Research Laboratory, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minya, Egypt

Valérie Thiers

Affiliation Unité INSERM 785, Centre Hépato-Biliaire, Villejuif, France

Arnaud Fontanet

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unité d’Epidémiologie des Maladies Emergentes, Paris, France, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Chaire Santé et Développement, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CF MKM AF. Performed the experiments: NA IB MED SEK MAH VT SP. Analyzed the data: CF JB BF MKM SP MAH VT AF MEH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MED SEK MAH VT. Wrote the paper: CF JB AF.