High rates of chronic HBV genotype E infection in a group of migrants in Italy from West Africa: Virological characteristics associated with poor immune clearance

• Vincenzo Malagnino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vincenzo Malagnino, Romina Salpini

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Department of System Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Romina Salpini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vincenzo Malagnino, Romina Salpini

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Gaetano Maffongelli,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Department of System Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Arianna Battisti,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Lavinia Fabeni,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Lorenzo Piermatteo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Luna Colagrossi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Vanessa Fini,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Alessandra Ricciardi,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Department of System Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Cesare Sarrecchia,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Department of System Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Carlo Federico Perno,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Massimo Andreoni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Department of System Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Valentina Svicher ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint last authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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• Loredana Sarmati

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

  * E-mail: sarmati@med.uniroma2.it

  ¶‡ These authors are joint last authors on this work.

  Affiliation Clinical Infectious Diseases, Department of System Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1452-0333

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