Aetiology of vaginal discharge, urethral discharge, and genital ulcer in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-regression

• Julia Michalow ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: j.michalow21@imperial.ac.uk

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6442-4097

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• Magdalene K. Walters ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Magdalene K. Walters, Olanrewaju Edun

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9607-6741

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• Olanrewaju Edun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Magdalene K. Walters, Olanrewaju Edun

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0306-5171

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• Max Wybrant,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3656-6785

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• Bethan Davies,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6585-7641

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• Tendesayi Kufa,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for HIV & STI, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9797-616X

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• Thabitha Mathega,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for HIV & STI, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Sungai T. Chabata,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research (CeSHHAR), Harare, Zimbabwe

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7629-1543

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• Frances M. Cowan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research (CeSHHAR), Harare, Zimbabwe, Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3087-4422

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• Anne Cori,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8443-9162

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• Marie-Claude Boily,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3919-006X

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• Jeffrey W. Imai-Eaton

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7728-728X

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