About the Authors

Bethan Davies

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Bethan.davies06@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Katy M. E. Turner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Thomas Benfield

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hvidovre, Denmark, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Maria Frølund

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Unit for Reproductive Tract Microbiology, Bacteria, Parasites & Fungi, Infectious Disease Preparedness, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

Berit Andersen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health Programmes, Central Region, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Henrik Westh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hvidovre, Denmark

on behalf of the Danish Chlamydia Study

Membership of the Danish Chlamydia Study is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Helen Ward

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: BD received personal fees from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) outside the submitted work; HWa is an ISSTDR Board Member (2013–ongoing) and EIT Health Supervisory Board member (2017-ongoing). She declares personal consultancy for work in drafting Guidance on Chlamydia Control (2015-16) for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, NIHR Imperial BRC grant income to research group (2012-ongoing) and Wellcome Trust grant income to research group (2009-2014); KMET is an editor of Sexually Transmitted Infections and declares personal fees from Aquarius Population Health and travel expenses from Hologic outside the submitted work; BA declares unrestricted support from Roche (hrHPV test kits free of charge for a project and sponsorship for participation in Eurogin 2016) for other projects; HWe declares financial grants and speaker fees from Hologic not used for this study.