About the Authors

Jimmy Twin

jimmy.twin@mcri.edu.au

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Catriona S. Bradshaw

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

Suzanne M. Garland

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

Christopher K. Fairley

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Katherine Fethers

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Sepehr N. Tabrizi

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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