About the Authors

Nafiisah Chotun

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nafiisahc@sun.ac.za, nafiisah.chotun@gmail.com

Affiliation Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Wolfgang Preiser

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Tygerberg Hospital, Tygerberg, South Africa

Christoffel Johannes van Rensburg

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Pedro Fernandez

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

Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Gerhard Barnard Theron

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

Dieter Glebe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Virology, National Reference Centre for Hepatitis-B and D Viruses, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Giessen, Germany

Monique Ingrid Andersson

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

Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.