About the Authors
- Prini Mahendran
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Affiliation Department of GU Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Suneeta Soni
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* E-mail: suneetasoni@gmail.com
Affiliation Department of GU Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Stephanie Goubet
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Affiliation Clinical Investigations and Research Unit, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Emma Saunsbury
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Affiliation Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Jonathan Roberts
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Affiliation Department of GU Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Martin Fisher
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Affiliations Department of GU Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: All authors declare: no support from any organisation for the submitted work; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. This is with the following exceptions: SS and MF acknowledge the Department of Health for funding which was awarded for a testing pilot described as part of this study but was not directly related to the submitted work. SS has received honoraria, speakers fees or funding to attend conferences from the following companies: BD Probetec and Bristol Myers Squibb, outside the submitted work. MF has received honoraria, speakers fees or funding to attend conferences from the following pharmaceutical companies: AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead, Merck, Janssen and Viiv. He has also received a research grant from Gilead, outside the submitted work. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SS PM MF. Performed the experiments: PM SS ES. Analyzed the data: PM SS SG MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PM SS SG ES JR MF. Wrote the paper: PM SS SG ES JR MF.