Affiliations

• ¹ Endemic Medicine Department, Cairo University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt; Kasr Al-Aini HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fighting Group, Cairo University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt. Electronic address: Ahmed.cordie@cu.edu.eg.
• ² Endemic Medicine Department, Cairo University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt; Kasr Al-Aini HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fighting Group, Cairo University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt. Electronic address: rahma-mohamed@kasralainy.edu.eg.
• ³ Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Electronic address: mark.sonderup@uct.ac.za.
• ⁴ Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Electronic address: wendy.spearman@uct.ac.za.
• ⁵ Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
• ⁶ Hepatology Department, Mustapha Bacha Hospital, University of Algiers, Algeria. Electronic address: Gesmat@cu.edu.eg.
• ⁷ St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ⁸ Endemic Medicine Department, Cairo University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt. Electronic address: G_esmat@yahoo.com.