About the Authors

Gibril Ndow

g.ndow@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliations Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Surgery & Cancer, St. Mary’s Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Hepatitis Unit, Disease Control & Elimination, MRC Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia

Mindy L. Gore

Affiliation Section of Virology, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Yusuke Shimakawa

Affiliation Unité d’Épidémiologie des Maladies Émergentes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Penda Suso

Affiliation Hepatitis Unit, Disease Control & Elimination, MRC Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia

Abdoulie Jatta

Affiliation Hepatitis Unit, Disease Control & Elimination, MRC Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia

Saydiba Tamba

Affiliation Hepatitis Unit, Disease Control & Elimination, MRC Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia

Amina Sow

Affiliation Laboratoire Bactériologie-Virologie, CHU Aristide Le Dantec, Université Cheikh Anta DIOP, Dakar, Senegal

Coumba Touré-Kane

Affiliation Laboratoire Bactériologie-Virologie, CHU Aristide Le Dantec, Université Cheikh Anta DIOP, Dakar, Senegal

Fouzia Sadiq

Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Surgery & Cancer, St. Mary’s Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Saihou Sabally

Affiliation Hands on Care HIV Clinic, Brikama Health Centre, Brikama, The Gambia

Ramou Njie

Affiliations Hepatitis Unit, Disease Control & Elimination, MRC Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), WHO, Lyon, France

Mark R. Thursz

Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Surgery & Cancer, St. Mary’s Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Maud Lemoine

Affiliation Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Surgery & Cancer, St. Mary’s Hospital Campus, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GN SS RN MRT ML. Data curation: GN YS. Formal analysis: GN MLG YS MRT ML. Funding acquisition: GN RN MRT ML. Investigation: GN MLG PS AJ ST AS CTK FS. Methodology: GN MLG YS SS RN MRT ML. Project administration: GN MRT ML. Resources: GN MLG AS CTK SS RN MRT ML. Supervision: SS RN MRT ML. Validation: MLG AS CTK. Visualization: GN MLG YS MRT ML. Writing – original draft: GN MLG YS MRT ML. Writing – review & editing: GN MLG YS PS AJ ST AS CTK FS SS RN MRT ML.