Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endemic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt. Electronic address: Yasser.abdallah@mu.edu.eg.
• ² Gastroenterology and Hepatology Service, Yerevan Medical Scientific Center, Yerevan, Armenia.
• ³ Department of Internal Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, Obaidulla Hospital, Ras Al Khaimah, Emirates Health Services, Ministry of Health, United Arab Emirates.
• ⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ⁶ Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Hayat Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait.
• ⁷ Paediatric Hepatology Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁸ School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
• ⁹ Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
• ¹⁰ National Center for Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Ibn Sina Hospital, Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan.
• ¹¹ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.
• ¹² Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.
• ¹³ Department of Gastroenterology, Habib Thameur Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia.
• ¹⁴ Internal Medicine Department, Al-Bashir Hospital, Amman, Jordan.
• ¹⁵ Aga Khan Hospital, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
• ¹⁶ Tropical Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt.
• ¹⁷ Department of Gastroenterology, Univ of the Witwatersrand, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ¹⁸ Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
• ¹⁹ Department of Internal Medicine, Jeddah University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• ²⁰ Departement of Endemic Medicine and Hepatogastrenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ²¹ Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt; Hepatology and Gastroenterology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.