About the Authors

Luicer Anne Olubayo Ingasia

Contributed equally to this work with: Luicer Anne Olubayo Ingasia, Evangelia Georgia Kostaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hepatitis Virus Diversity Research Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Evangelia Georgia Kostaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Luicer Anne Olubayo Ingasia, Evangelia Georgia Kostaki

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

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Dimitrios Paraskevis

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Anna Kramvis

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

Anna.Kramvis@wits.ac.za

Affiliation Hepatitis Virus Diversity Research Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.