Assessing the prevalence of Female Genital Schistosomiasis and comparing the acceptability and performance of health worker-collected and self-collected cervical-vaginal swabs using PCR testing among women in North-Western Tanzania: The ShWAB study

• Tamara Ursini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Ursini, Salvatore Scarso

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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• Salvatore Scarso ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Ursini, Salvatore Scarso

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: salvatore.scarso@sacrocuore.it

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2956-8997

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• Stella Mugassa,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Behavioural Sciences, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• Jeffer Bhuko Othman,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• Amina Jumanne Yussuph,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• Edgar Ndaboine,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• Gladys Mbwanji,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• Cristina Mazzi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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• Martina Leonardi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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• Marco Prato,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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• Elena Pomari,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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• Humphrey Deogratias Mazigo,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• Francesca Tamarozzi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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