About the Authors
- Michelle K. Yong
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* E-mail: Michelle.Yong@unimelb.edu.au
Affiliations The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University and Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
- Paul U. Cameron
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Affiliations The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University and Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
- Tim Spelman
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Affiliation Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia
- Julian H. Elliott
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University and Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
- Christopher K. Fairley
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Affiliation Central Clinical School, Monash University and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Melbourne, Australia
- Jeffrey Boyle
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Affiliation QIAGEN, Germantown, Maryland, United States of America
- Misato Miyamasu
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Affiliation QIAGEN, Germantown, Maryland, United States of America
- Sharon R. Lewin
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Affiliations The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University and Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Competing Interests
Authors JB and MM are employees of the funder Qiagen Ltd, who partly funded this investigator initiated study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: SRL PUC MKY JHE. Data curation: MKY TS. Formal analysis: MKY TS PUC SRL. Funding acquisition: SRL PUC JB MM. Investigation: MKY JYE CKF JB MM. Methodology: MKY TS SRL. Project administration: SRL. Resources: SRL JB MM. Supervision: SRL PUC. Validation: MKY JB MM. Visualization: MKY PUC SRL. Writing – original draft: MKY. Writing – review & editing: MKY PUC TS JHE CKF MM SRL.