About the Authors
- Tania Crucitti
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* E-mail: tcrucitti@itg.be
Affiliation HIV/STI Reference Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Katrien Fransen
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Affiliation HIV/STI Reference Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Rashika Maharaj
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Affiliation HIV Prevention Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa
- Tom Tenywa
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Affiliation STI Reference Laboratory, Makarere University, Kampala, Uganda
- Marguerite Massinga Loembé
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Affiliations Département de Médecine Sociale et Préventive, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, Unité de Recherche en Santé des Populations, Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire de Québec, Quebec, Canada, Centre Hospitalier Affilié Universitaire de Québec, Quebec, Canada
- Kailapuri Gangatharan Murugavel
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Affiliation Y. R. Gaitonde Center for AIDS Research and Education (Y. R. G. CARE), Voluntary Health Services Campus, Chennai, India
- Kevin Mendonca
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Affiliation Population Health and Clinical Research, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India
- Said Abdellati
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Affiliation HIV/STI Reference Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Greet Beelaert
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Affiliation HIV/STI Reference Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Lut Van Damme
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Affiliations CONRAD, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America, Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TC KF LVD. Performed the experiments: RM TT MML KGM KM SA GB. Analyzed the data: TC KF SA GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF RM TT MML KGM KM SA GB LVD. Wrote the paper: TC LVD. Provided overall supervision of the QA program: TC. Supervision of HIV QC activities: KF. Critically revised the paper and approved the manuscript: KF RM MML. Reviewed and approved manuscript: TT KGM KM SA GB. Laboratory supervision in Durban: RM. Laboratory supervision in Kampala: TT. Laboratory supervision in Benin: MML. Laboratory supervision in Chennai: KGM. Laboratory supervision in Bangalore: KM. Trained laboratory site staff, periodic study sites laboratory supervision: SA GB. International principal investigator of trial: LVD.