About the Authors

Amanda Leal Ferreira

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology and Cytopathology, Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women, Child, and Adolescent Health of Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Yara Lúcia Mendes Furtado de Melo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cervical Pathology, Gynecology Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Elyzabeth Avvad Portari

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology and Cytopathology, Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women, Child, and Adolescent Health of Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dione Corrêa Araújo Dock

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology and Cytopathology, Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women, Child, and Adolescent Health of Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Nilma Valéria Ferreira Caldeira

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology and Cytopathology, Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women, Child, and Adolescent Health of Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Saint Clair dos Santos Gomes Júnior

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Research Unit, Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women, Child, and Adolescent Health of Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fabio Bastos Russomano

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabio Bastos Russomano

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Clinical and Surgical Care of Women’s Area, Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women, Child, and Adolescent Health of Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cecília Vianna de Andrade

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

cviannadeandrade@gmail.com

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology and Cytopathology, Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women, Child, and Adolescent Health of Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.