Hepatitis B sero-prevalence in children under 15 years of age in South Africa using residual samples from community-based febrile rash surveillance

• Nishi Prabdial-Sing,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Virology, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Lillian Makhathini,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Sheilagh Brigitte Smit,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Morubula Jack Manamela,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Nkengafac Villyen Motaze,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health,Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0227-6425

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• Cheryl Cohen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Melinda Shelley Suchard

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

  * E-mail: melindas@nicd.ac.za

  Affiliations Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Chemical Pathology, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6978-4654

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