Author affiliation addition: “Hepatitis B virus detected in paper currencies in a densely populated city of lndia: A plausible source of horizontal transmission?”

Palashpriya Das, Ruchi Supekar, Ritika Chatterjee, Subrata Roy, Anisa Ghosh, Subhajit Biswas

Palashpriya Das, Ruchi Supekar, Ritika Chatterjee, Subrata Roy, Anisa Ghosh, Subhajit Biswas,Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology,Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India

Ruchi Supekar, Subhajit Biswas, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad-201002, India

Abstract Addition of authors’ affiliation to "Hepatitis B virus detected in paper currencies in a densely populated city of India: A plausible source of horizontal transmission?" World J Hepatol 2020 Oct 27; 12(10): 775-791. In this article, one of the affiliations of two authors was not mentioned. Ruchi Supekar, a joint first author and Subhajit Biswas, the corresponding author are affiliated to Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad- 201002, India.

Key Words: Addition; Affiliation; Correction

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Addendum to: Das P, Supekar R, Chatterjee R, Roy S, Ghosh A, Biswas S. Hepatitis B virus detected in paper currencies in a densely populated city of India: A plausible source of horizontal transmission?World J Hepatol2020 Oct 27; 12(10): 775-791 [PMID: 33200016; DOI: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i10.775]. In this article[1], one of the affiliations of a joint first author and the corresponding author was not mentioned.Ruchi Supekar, a joint first author, is a PhD candidate registered under Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad- 201002, India. Subhajit Biswas is also affiliated to AcSIR as a faculty member (Associate Professor). We apologize for the error.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Biswas S and Supekar R acknowledge Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR),Ghaziabad- 201002, India. Roy S acknowledges UGC for his SRF. All authors acknowledge CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology for support.

FOOTNOTES

Author contributions:Biswas S and Das P conceptualized, designed and executed the present work and wrote the manuscript; Supekar R contributed substantially to the virology experiments and in writing of the manuscript;Chatterjee R, Roy S and Ghosh A took part in collecting the samples for this study and also conducted experiments;Das P and Supekar R contributed equally and are joint first authors; All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

Conflict-of-interest statement:All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Country/Territory of origin:India

ORClD number:Palashpriya Das 0000-0002-6834-8105; Ruchi Supekar 0000-0002-1285-6821; Ritika Chatterjee 0000-0003-3432-9245; Subrata Roy 0000-0002-3031-6116; Anisa Ghosh 0000-0002-3208-0071; Subhajit Biswas 0000-0002-9001-7150.

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