About the Authors

Jennifer Walker

walker@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliations CERSH Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Centre for Women's Health, Gender and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Sepehr N. Tabrizi

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Department, the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Christopher K. Fairley

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Carlton Victoria, Australia, Sexual Health Unit, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Marcus Y. Chen

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Carlton Victoria, Australia, Sexual Health Unit, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Catriona S. Bradshaw

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Carlton Victoria, Australia, Sexual Health Unit, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jimmy Twin

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Department, the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Nicole Taylor

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Department, the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Basil Donovan

Affiliation Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, and Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Sydney Hospital, Sydney Australia

John M. Kaldor

Affiliation Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, and Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Sydney Hospital, Sydney Australia

Kathleen McNamee

Affiliations Family Planning Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Monash Medical Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Eve Urban

Affiliation Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Carlton Victoria, Australia

Sandra Walker

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

Marian Currie

Affiliation Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Hudson Birden

Affiliation University Centre for Rural Health, and Sydney Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

Francis Bowden

Affiliation Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Jane Gunn

Affiliation Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Marie Pirotta

Affiliation Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lyle Gurrin

Affiliation Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Veerakathy Harindra

Affiliation St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Suzanne M. Garland

Affiliations Centre for Women's Health, Gender and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jane S. Hocking

Affiliation Centre for Women's Health, Gender and Society, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW SNT CKF MYC CSB BD JMK KM MC FB JG LG VH SMG JSH. Performed the experiments: JW SNT JT NT EU SW MC HB MP JSH. Analyzed the data: JW SNT JT NT LG JSH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SMG SNT JT NT. Wrote the paper: JW JSH SNT CKF MYC CSB BD JMK MP LG SMG.