Scalp haircuts, keloids and blood-borne virus transmission risk in South Africa—The SHAKA study

• Nonhlanhla Khumalo ,

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

  * E-mail: n.khumalo@uct.ac.za (NPK); mark.sonderup@uct.ac.za (MWS)

  Affiliation Hair and Skin Research Laboratory, Division of Dermatology, Groote Schuur Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Avumile Mankahla,

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

  Affiliation Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital and Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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• Stephen Korsman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Medical Virology, NHLS and Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Freedom Gumedze,

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

  Affiliation Division of Statistics, Department of Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Wisdom Basera,

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

  Affiliation Burden of Disease Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4006-1858

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• Anthia Ndyenga,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hair and Skin Research Laboratory, Division of Dermatology, Groote Schuur Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Lwazi Mhlanti,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hair and Skin Research Laboratory, Division of Dermatology, Groote Schuur Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Mashiko Setshedi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Ruanne Barnabas,

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

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• C. Wendy Spearman,

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

  Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Mark W. Sonderup

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

  * E-mail: n.khumalo@uct.ac.za (NPK); mark.sonderup@uct.ac.za (MWS)

  Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7128-8329

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