Herpes simplex virus type 1 epidemiology in Latin America and the Caribbean: Systematic review and meta-analytics

• Layan Sukik ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Layan Sukik, Maryam Alyafei, Manale Harfouche

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

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation—Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Maryam Alyafei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Layan Sukik, Maryam Alyafei, Manale Harfouche

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

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation—Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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• Manale Harfouche ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Layan Sukik, Maryam Alyafei, Manale Harfouche

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

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation—Education City, Doha, Qatar

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• Laith J. Abu-Raddad

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

  * E-mail: lja2002@qatar-med.cornell.edu

  Affiliations Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, Qatar Foundation—Education City, Doha, Qatar, Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America, College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0790-0506

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