Affiliations

• ¹ Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. Electronic address: m_elkassas@hq.helwan.edu.eg.
• ² Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ³ Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁴ Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁵ Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Police Authority Hospitals, Giza, Egypt.
• ⁶ New Cairo Viral Hepatitis Treatment Unit, New Cairo Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁸ Department Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Shebin El Kom, Egypt.
• ⁹ Internal Medicine Department, Medicine and Clinical Studies Research Institute, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
• ¹⁰ Hepatology and Gastroenterology Department, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt.
• ¹¹ Hepatology and Gastroenterology Department, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt.
• ¹² Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.