Detection of HBsAg mutants in the blood donor population of Pakistan

• Ahmad Farooq ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad Farooq, Usman Waheed, Hasan Abbas Zaheer, Muhammad Arshad

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics & Biotechnology, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1926-3279

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• Usman Waheed ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad Farooq, Usman Waheed, Hasan Abbas Zaheer, Muhammad Arshad

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

  Affiliation Departments of Pathology and Blood Bank, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Hasan Abbas Zaheer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad Farooq, Usman Waheed, Hasan Abbas Zaheer, Muhammad Arshad

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departments of Pathology and Blood Bank, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Safe Blood Transfusion Programme, Ministry of National Health Services, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Fahad Aldakheel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Shatha Alduraywish ,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Family & Community Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Muhammad Arshad

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad Farooq, Usman Waheed, Hasan Abbas Zaheer, Muhammad Arshad

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

  * E-mail: m.arshad@iiu.edu.pk

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics & Biotechnology, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6381-1746

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