Occult Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Nigerian Blood Donors and Hepatitis B Virus Transmission Risks

• Opaleye O. Oluyinka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Opaleye O. Oluyinka, Hoang Van Tong, Sy Bui Tien

  Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Deparment of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Nigeria

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• Hoang Van Tong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Opaleye O. Oluyinka, Hoang Van Tong, Sy Bui Tien

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Sy Bui Tien ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Opaleye O. Oluyinka, Hoang Van Tong, Sy Bui Tien

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, Department of Molecular Biology, 108 Military Central Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam

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• Ademola H. Fagbami,

  Affiliation Deparment of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Nigeria

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• Olusegun Adekanle,

  Affiliation Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria

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• Olusola Ojurongbe,

  Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Deparment of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Nigeria

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• C.-Thomas Bock,

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, Department of Molecular Pathology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Peter G. Kremsner,

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Thirumalaisamy P. Velavan

  * E-mail: velavan@medizin.uni-tuebingen.de

  Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Medicale, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

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