Global and regional dispersal patterns of hepatitis B virus genotype E from and in Africa: A full-genome molecular analysis

• Luicer Anne Olubayo Ingasia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luicer Anne Olubayo Ingasia, Evangelia Georgia Kostaki

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

  Affiliation Hepatitis Virus Diversity Research Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Evangelia Georgia Kostaki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luicer Anne Olubayo Ingasia, Evangelia Georgia Kostaki

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

  Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Dimitrios Paraskevis,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Anna Kramvis

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Anna.Kramvis@wits.ac.za

  Affiliation Hepatitis Virus Diversity Research Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6006-3765

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