Seroprevalence and molecular characterization of viral hepatitis and HIV co-infection in the Central African Republic

• Parvine Basimane-Bisimwa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Parvine Basimane-Bisimwa, Giscard Wilfried Koyaweda, Edgarthe Ngaïganam

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

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Bangui, Central African Republic, Université Evangélique en Afrique (UEA), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, International Center Advanced for Research and Training (ICART), Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Hôpital Général de Référence de Panzi, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Giscard Wilfried Koyaweda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Parvine Basimane-Bisimwa, Giscard Wilfried Koyaweda, Edgarthe Ngaïganam

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Bangui, Central African Republic

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• Edgarthe Ngaïganam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Parvine Basimane-Bisimwa, Giscard Wilfried Koyaweda, Edgarthe Ngaïganam

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Bangui, Central African Republic

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• Ulrich Vickos,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Arbovirus, Haemorrhagic Fevers, Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Emerging Virus and Zoonosis, Bangui, Central African Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5877-9836

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• Ornella Anne Demi Sibiro,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Bangui, Central African Republic

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• Brice Martial Yambiyo,

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

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Epidemiology Service, Bangui, Central African Republic

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• Benjamin Seydou Sombié,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Pulchérie Pélembi,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Service des Retrovirus-VIH, Bangui, Central African Republic

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• Sandrine Moussa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Service des Retrovirus-VIH, Bangui, Central African Republic

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• Claudine Bekondi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Centre de Ressources Biologiques, Bangui, Central African Republic

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• Tamara Giles-Vernick,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur-Université Paris Cité, Anthropology & Ecology of Disease Emergence Unit, INSERM, Paris, France

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• Alexandre Manirakiza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Epidemiology Service, Bangui, Central African Republic

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• Muriel Vray,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur-Université Paris Cité, Unit of Epidemiology of Emergent Infections, INSERM, Paris, France

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• Narcisse Patrice Joseph Komas

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

  * E-mail: npkomas@yahoo.fr, narcisse.komas@pasteur-bangui.cf

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Viral Hepatitis Laboratory, Bangui, Central African Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4097-7823

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