Biomarkers of chronic liver disease and their determinants in northern Ethiopia: Evaluating the synergistic impact of HBV and Schistosoma mansoni and the contribution of metabolic and lifestyle factors to liver injury

• Gessessew Bugssa ,

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

  * E-mail: bugssag@gmail.com

  Affiliations Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital and College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia, Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, School of Medicine; College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8159-4194

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• Nega Berhe,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Vestfold Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Tønsberg, Norway

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• Girmay Medhin,

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

  Affiliation Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Shevanti Nayagam,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

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• Tilahun Teklehaymanot,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Asgeir Johannessen

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Vestfold Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Tønsberg, Norway, University of Oslo, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oslo, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5966-7166

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