About the Authors

Aline Munier

aline.munier@pasteur.fr

Affiliation Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Diaa Marzouk

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Florence Abravanel

Affiliations INSERM, U1043, Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan, Toulouse, France, CHU Toulouse, Hôpital Purpan, Laboratoire de virologie, Institut fédératif de biologie de Purpan, Toulouse, France

Mai El-Daly

Affiliations Viral Hepatitis Research Laboratory, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt, National Liver Institute, Minoufiya University, Minoufiya, Egypt

Sylvia Taylor

Affiliation Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Rasha Mamdouh

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Aim Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Waleed Salah Eldin

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Hanan Ezz El-Arab

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Dalia Gaber Sos

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Mohamed Momen

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Omar Okasha

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Lenaig Le Fouler

Affiliation Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Mostafa El-Hosini

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Jacques Izopet

Affiliations INSERM, U1043, Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan, Toulouse, France, CHU Toulouse, Hôpital Purpan, Laboratoire de virologie, Institut fédératif de biologie de Purpan, Toulouse, France

Mona Rafik

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Aim Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Matthew Albert

Affiliations Laboratory of Dendritic Cell Immunobiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, INSERM U818, Paris, France

Mohamed Abdel-Hamid

Affiliations Viral Hepatitis Research Laboratory, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt, Department of Microbiology, Minia Faculty of Medicine, Minia, Egypt

Mostafa Kamal Mohamed

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Elisabeth Delarocque-Astagneau

Affiliation Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Arnaud Fontanet

Affiliations Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Chaire Santé et Développement, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM DM FA ST JI MR MA MAH MKM EDA AF. Performed the experiments: FA MED RM WSE HEEA DGS MM OO LLF MEH MR. Analyzed the data: AM DM FA LLF MEH JI MR MA MAH MKM EDA AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM FA MED JI MR MA MAH MKM EDA AF. Wrote the paper: AM DM FA MED ST RM WSE HEEA DGS MM OO LLF MEH JI MR MA MAH MKM EDA AF.