Contributors
Jean Marie Eko Mba: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Writing – original draft
Cyrille Bisseye:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6888-6317
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review &
editing
Jophrette Mireille Ntsame Ndong: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original
draft
Landry Erik Mombo: Role: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draft
Calixte Bengone: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Software
Guy Mouelet Migolet: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: Supervision
Bertrand M’batchi: Role: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Heidi E. Kosiorek: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysis
Richard J. Butterfield: Role: Formal analysis
Lewis R. Roberts:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7885-8574
Role: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Mitesh J. Borad: Role: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Bolni Marius Nagalo: Role: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Luisa Gregori: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
13
April
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e0194285
Affiliations
[1
]
Centre National de Transfusion sanguine, Libreville, Gabon
[2
]
Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (LABMC), Université des Sciences
et Techniques de Masuku, Franceville, Gabon
[3
]
Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
[4
]
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester,
Minnesota, United States of America
[5
]
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of
America
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-29277
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194285
PMC ID: 5898709
PubMed ID: 29652917
SO-VID: a964b5fb-ba76-439f-a8df-63a01465dc44
Copyright © © 2018 Eko Mba et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 7
August
2017
Date
accepted
: 28
February
2018
Page count
Figures: 1,
Tables: 4,
Pages: 10
Funding
Funded by: This work was supported by Centre National de Transfusion sanguine through le programme
de soutien à la recherche No2 and Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). The
sponsors had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to
publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6888-6317
Cyrille Bisseye
This work was supported by Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine (CNTS) and Agence
Universitaire de la Francophonie (Ref.: G950/442/BACGL 2016/AO/PFD) to CB. The sponsors
had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish,
or preparation of the manuscript.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Health Care
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Blood Donors
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People and Places
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Population Groupings
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Age Groups
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Biology and life sciences
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Microbiology
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Medical microbiology
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Microbial pathogens
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Viral pathogens
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Hepatitis viruses
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Hepatitis B virus
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Medicine and health sciences
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Pathogens
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Microbial pathogens
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Viral pathogens
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Hepatitis viruses
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Hepatitis B virus
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Biology and life sciences
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Organisms
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Viruses
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Viral pathogens
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Hepatitis viruses
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Hepatitis B virus
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People and Places
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Africa
Subject:
Gabon
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Vascular Medicine
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Blood Donation
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Diagnostic Medicine
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Clinical Laboratory Sciences
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Transfusion Medicine
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Blood Transfusion
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Hematology
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Transfusion Medicine
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Blood Transfusion
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Medicine and health sciences
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Infectious diseases
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Viral diseases
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Hepatitis
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Hepatitis B
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Medicine and health sciences
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Gastroenterology and hepatology
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Liver diseases
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Infectious hepatitis
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Hepatitis B
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Anatomy
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Body Fluids
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Blood
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Medicine and Health Sciences
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Anatomy
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Blood
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Physiology
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Blood
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