About the Authors

Ajit Sood

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

A. Suryaprasad

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

A. Trickey

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

adam.trickey@bristol.ac.uk

Affiliation Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

S. Kanchi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MSD India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India

V. Midha

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

M. A. Foster

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

E. Bennett

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

S. Kamili

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

F. Alvarez-Bognar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Merck & Co. Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America

S. Shadaker

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CDC Foundation, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

V. Surlikar

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MSD India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India

R. Garg

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot, Punjab, India

P. Mittal

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mittal Liver and Gastroenterology Centre, Patiala, Punjab, India

S. Sharma

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Nursing, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

M. T. May

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

P. Vickerman

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

F. Averhoff

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Competing Interests

S Kanchi, F Alvarez-Bognar, and V Surlikar are, or have previously been, employees of Merck. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.