About the Authors

Michelle K. Yong

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

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

Affiliation Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Julian H. Elliott

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Monash University and Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Christopher K. Fairley

Affiliation Central Clinical School, Monash University and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Melbourne, Australia

Jeffrey Boyle

Affiliation QIAGEN, Germantown, Maryland, United States of America

Misato Miyamasu

Affiliation QIAGEN, Germantown, Maryland, United States of America

Sharon R. Lewin

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.