About the Authors

Katherine Fethers

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine Fethers, Jimmy Twin

kfethers@mshc.org.au

Affiliations School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jimmy Twin

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine Fethers, Jimmy Twin

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Christopher K. Fairley

Affiliation Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Freya J. I. Fowkes

Affiliations School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Suzanne M. Garland

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Glenda Fehler

Affiliation Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Anna M. Morton

Affiliation Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jane S. Hocking

Affiliation School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sepehr N. Tabrizi

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Catriona S. Bradshaw

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KF JT CF ST SG CB. Performed the experiments: KF JT AM GF ST CB. Analyzed the data: KF FF JH JT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KF JT CF FF SG CF CB ST. Wrote the paper: KF JT CF FF AM CF CB JH.