Factors associated with phylogenetic clustering of hepatitis C virus, mainly among people who inject drugs who access HIV prevention services in South Africa, 2016–2017

• Nkosenhle L. Ndlovu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

  Current Address: National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Centre for Vaccines, 1 Modderfontein Rd, Sandringham, Johannesburg, 2192, South Africa

  Affiliations School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Centre for Vaccines, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0294-0720

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• Andrew Scheibe,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations TB HIV Care, Cape Town and Durban, South Africa, Community Oriented Primary Care Research Unit, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Harry Hausler,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TB HIV Care, Cape Town and Durban, South Africa

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• Mark W. Sonderup,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• C. Wendy Spearman,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Katherine Young,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TB HIV Care, Cape Town and Durban, South Africa

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• Dawie Nel,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation OUT LGBT Well-being, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Jason T. Blackard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jason T. Blackard, Nishi Prabdial-Sing

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2876-3811

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• Nishi Prabdial-Sing

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jason T. Blackard, Nishi Prabdial-Sing

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

  Current Address: National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Centre for Vaccines, 1 Modderfontein Rd, Sandringham, Johannesburg, 2192, South Africa

  Affiliations School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Centre for Vaccines, Johannesburg, South Africa

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