About the Authors

Benjamin D. Grant

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, WA, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Timothy Quang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Júlio César Possati-Resende

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Department of Cancer Prevention, Pio XII Foundation, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, Brazil

Cristovam Scapulatempo-Neto

Roles Validation

Affiliations Molecular Oncology Research Center, Pio XII Foundation, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, Brazil, Department of Pathology, Pio XII Foundation, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, Brazil

Graziela de Macedo Matsushita

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Pio XII Foundation, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, Brazil

Edmundo Carvalho Mauad

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Cancer Prevention, Pio XII Foundation, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, Brazil

Mark H. Stoler

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Philip E. Castle

Roles Validation

Affiliations Global Coalition against Cervical Cancer, Arlington, VA, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States of America

José Humberto Tavares Guerreiro Fregnani

Roles Supervision, Validation

Current address: A.C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Affiliation Center for the Researcher Support, Pio XII Foundation, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, Brazil

Kathleen M. Schmeler

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rkortum@rice.edu

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Phil Castle: I have received HPV tests for research at a reduced or no cost from Roche, Becton Dickinson, Cepheid, and Arbor Vita Corporation. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.