Hyperendemic Chlamydia trachomatis sexually transmitted infections among females represent a high burden of asymptomatic disease and health disparity among Pacific Islanders in Fiji

• Virginia Svigals,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

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• Alden Blair,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Santha Muller,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Fiji National University College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Suva, Fiji

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• Aalisha Sahu Khan,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fiji Centre for Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji

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• Daniel Faktaufon,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fiji Centre for Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji

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• Mike Kama,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fiji Centre for Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji

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• Torika Tamani,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Family Health, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji

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• Laila Esfandiari,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

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• Mollie O’Brien,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

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• Deborah Dean

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Deborah.Dean@ucsf.edu

  Affiliations Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Departments of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley and San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3847-8838

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