About the Authors

Zayar Phyo

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Project Research Center for Epidemiology and Prevention of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Ko Ko

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Project Research Center for Epidemiology and Prevention of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Serge Ouoba

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Project Research Center for Epidemiology and Prevention of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Unité de Recherche Clinique de Nanoro (URCN), Institut de Recherche en Science de la Santé (IRSS), Nanoro, Burkina Faso

Aya Sugiyama

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Project Research Center for Epidemiology and Prevention of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Ulugbek Khudayberdievich Mirzaev

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Project Research Center for Epidemiology and Prevention of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Department of Hepatology, Scientific Research Institute of Virology, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Golda Ataa Akuffo

Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Project Research Center for Epidemiology and Prevention of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Chanroth Chhoung

Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Project Research Center for Epidemiology and Prevention of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Tomoyuki Akita

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Project Research Center for Epidemiology and Prevention of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Junko Tanaka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

jun-tanaka@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, Project Research Center for Epidemiology and Prevention of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest.