Yogambigai Rajamoorthy: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draft
Alias Radam: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Niazlin Mohd Taib: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Khalid Ab Rahim: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– review & editing
Subramaniam Munusamy: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Abram Luther Wagner:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4691-7802
Role: Data curationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Mudatsir Mudatsir: Role: Data curationRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Abdullatif Bazrbachi: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Validation
Harapan Harapan:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7630-8413
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Emily A. Hurley: Role: Editor
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):
9
April
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e0215125
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Economics, Faculty of Accountancy and Management, Universiti Tunku Abdul
Rahman, Selangor, Malaysia
[2
]
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia,
Selangor, Malaysia
[3
]
Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Health
Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
[4
]
Centre for Language and Foundation Studies, Manipal International University, Negeri
Sembilan, Malaysia
[5
]
Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
of America
[6
]
Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh,
Indonesia
[7
]
Medical Research Unit, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
[8
]
School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western
Australia, Australia
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,
UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
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PONE-D-18-24176
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215125
PMC ID: 6456223
PubMed ID: 30964934
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Copyright © © 2019 Rajamoorthy et al
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Funded by: Putra Grant - Putra Graduate Initiative (IPS)
Award ID: GP-IPS/2013-939220
Award Recipient
:
Yogambigai Rajamoorthy
This study was funded by the Putra Grant - Putra Graduate Initiative (IPS), grant
number GP-IPS/2013-939220 to YR. HH is supported by Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade, Scholarship for International Affairs and Trade, Scholarship for International
Research Fees (SIRF) from The University of Western Australia and NHMRC Centre of
Research Excellence in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID). The funders had no role
in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation
of the manuscript.
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Immunology
Subject:
Vaccination and Immunization
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Immunology
Subject:
Vaccination and Immunization
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Public and Occupational Health
Subject:
Preventive Medicine
Subject:
Vaccination and Immunization
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Geographical Locations
Subject:
Asia
Subject:
Malaysia
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Infectious Diseases
Subject:
Infectious Disease Control
Subject:
Vaccines
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Medical microbiology
Subject:
Microbial pathogens
Subject:
Viral pathogens
Subject:
Hepatitis viruses
Subject:
Hepatitis B virus
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Pathology and laboratory medicine
Subject:
Pathogens
Subject:
Microbial pathogens
Subject:
Viral pathogens
Subject:
Hepatitis viruses
Subject:
Hepatitis B virus
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Viruses
Subject:
Viral pathogens
Subject:
Hepatitis viruses
Subject:
Hepatitis B virus
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Infectious diseases
Subject:
Viral diseases
Subject:
Hepatitis
Subject:
Hepatitis B
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Gastroenterology and hepatology
Subject:
Liver diseases
Subject:
Infectious hepatitis
Subject:
Hepatitis B
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Population Groupings
Subject:
Ethnicities
Subject:
Malay People
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Epidemiology
Subject:
Ethnic Epidemiology
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Population Groupings
Subject:
Ethnicities
Subject:
Chinese People
