About the Authors
- Derek C. Johnson
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Madhav P. Bhatta
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Affiliation College of Public Health, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America
- Jennifer S. Smith
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Mirjam-Colette Kempf
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Affiliations School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Thomas R. Broker
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Sten H. Vermund
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Affiliation Vanderbilt University, Institute for Global Health, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Eric Chamot
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
- Shilu Aryal
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Affiliation Nepal Family Health Division, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Pema Lhaki
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Affiliation Nepal Fertility Care Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Sadeep Shrestha
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* E-mail: sshrestha@uab.edu
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Competing Interests
Jennifer S. Smith has received research grants, served on paid advisory boards, and/or been a paid speaker for Hologic/Gen-Probe, BD Diagnostics, and QIAGEN over the past five years. Hologic/Gen-Probe has provided APTIMA® Cervical Specimen Collection and Transport and ThinPrep PreservCyt medium for this study. Also, Dr. Sten H Vermund, a co-author in the manuscript, is a PLoS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SS PL. Performed the experiments: DCJ PL SS. Analyzed the data: DCJ MPB JSS SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA PL SS. Wrote the paper: DCJ MPB EC MCK SS. Manuscript and discussion of results and interpretation: TRB SHV JSS SS.