Zinc deficiency and advanced liver fibrosis among HIV and hepatitis C co-infected anti-retroviral naïve persons with alcohol use in Russia

• Joshua A. Barocas ,

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

  * E-mail: Joshua.Barocas@bmc.org

  Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-4697

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• Kaku So-Armah,

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

  Affiliation Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Debbie M. Cheng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Dmitry Lioznov,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations First Pavlov State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Smoridintsev Research Institute of Influenza, St. Petersburg, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-7354

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• Marianna Baum,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Florida International University, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Miami, Florida, United States of America

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• Kerrin Gallagher,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Daniel Fuster,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital Universitari Germans Trias I Pujol, Badalona, Spain

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• Natalia Gnatienko,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Evgeny Krupitsky,

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

  Affiliations First Pavlov State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia, V.M. Bekhterev National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology, St. Petersburg, Russia

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• Matthew S. Freiberg,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Jeffrey H. Samet

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

  Affiliations Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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