In silico design of novel recombinant antigens containing immunologically relevant regions of wild-type and escape mutant variants of HBsAg

• Yeshwas Abite Workneh ,

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

  * E-mail: yeshwas.abite@aau.edu.et

  Affiliations Biotechnology Research Center, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, CDT-Africa, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Pathology, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5928-3912

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• Desye Melese Sisay,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations CDT-Africa, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Biotechnology, College of Natural Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Amhara, Ethiopia,

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• Abebaw Fekadu,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Funding acquisition

  Affiliations CDT-Africa, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Global Health & Infection Department, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK

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• Abraham Tesfaye Bika,

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

  Affiliation CDT-Africa, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Alemu Tekewe Mogus,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CDT-Africa, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Tesfaye Sisay Tessema

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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