Incidence of Occult Hepatitis B Infection (OBI) and hepatitis B genotype characterization among blood donors in Cameroon

• Macqueen Ngum Mbencho ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ MNM and NH are share first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Nourhane Hafza ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MNM and NH are share first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Le Chi Cao,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Parasitology, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy (HUMP), Hue University, Hue, Vietnam

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• Victorine Ndiwago Mingo,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0154-7002

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• Eric A. Achidi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Faculty of Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Stephen Mbigha Ghogomu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Thirumalaisamy P. Velavan

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

  * E-mail: t.velavan@uni-tuebingen.de

  Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Vietnamese-German Center for Medical Research (VG-CARE), Hanoi, Vietnam, Faculty of Medicine, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9809-9883

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