Point-of-care screening for hepatitis B virus infection in pregnant women at an antenatal clinic: A South African experience

• Nafiisah Chotun ,

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

  * E-mail: nafiisahc@sun.ac.za, nafiisah.chotun@gmail.com

  Affiliation Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1729-7915

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• Wolfgang Preiser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Tygerberg Hospital, Tygerberg, South Africa

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• Christoffel Johannes van Rensburg,

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

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Pedro Fernandez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Urology, Department of Surgical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gerhard Barnard Theron,

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

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Dieter Glebe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Virology, National Reference Centre for Hepatitis-B and D Viruses, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Giessen, Germany

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• Monique Ingrid Andersson

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

  Affiliations Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

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