About the Authors
- Paddy Horner
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Contributed equally to this work with: Paddy Horner, Kate Soldan
Affiliation School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Kate Soldan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Paddy Horner, Kate Soldan
Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
- Sueli M. Vieira
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Gillian S. Wills
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Sarah C. Woodhall
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Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
- Richard Pebody
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Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
- Anthony Nardone
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Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
- Elaine Stanford
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Affiliation Manchester Medical Microbiology Partnership, Public Health England, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Myra O. McClure
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* E-mail: m.mcclure@imperial.ac.uk
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
PH and MMcC hold a patent for the use of Pgp3 antibody alone or in combination with other antigens to determine whether an individual is at risk of chronic sequelae following Chlamydia trachomatis infection (Patent number 1111673.8). This patent does not cover the use of Pgp3 antibody to detect chlamydia antibody as a marker of previous infection as used in this study. PH has undertaken work for Cepheid investigating the utility and cost effectiveness of a point of care test for chlamydia and gonorrhoea. He has presented on this at a meeting sponsored by Cepheid. KS, SV, GW, SW, RP, AN, and ES have no conflict of interests that may be relevant to the submitted work. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PH MOM KS RP AN. Performed the experiments: ES SV GW. Analyzed the data: KS PH SW. Wrote the paper: KS PH SV GW SW RP AN ES MOM.