About the Authors
- Martin Fisher
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Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Fisher, Sonali Wayal, Helen Smith
* E-mail: martin.fisher@bsuh.nhs.uk
Affiliation Department of Genitourinary/HIV Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Sonali Wayal
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Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Fisher, Sonali Wayal, Helen Smith
Affiliation Division of Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, United Kingdom
- Helen Smith
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Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Fisher, Sonali Wayal, Helen Smith
Affiliation Division of Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, United Kingdom
- Carrie Llewellyn
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Division of Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, United Kingdom
- Sarah Alexander
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Public Health England, Sexually Transmitted Bacteria Reference Laboratory and Virus Reference Department, London, United Kingdom
- Catherine Ison
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Public Health England, Sexually Transmitted Bacteria Reference Laboratory and Virus Reference Department, London, United Kingdom
- John V Parry
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Public Health England, Sexually Transmitted Bacteria Reference Laboratory and Virus Reference Department, London, United Kingdom
- Garth Singleton
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Nicky Perry
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Genitourinary/HIV Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Daniel Richardson
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Genitourinary/HIV Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
- on behalf of the Brighton Home Sampling Kit Project Steering Group
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¶Membership of the Brighton Home Sampling Kit Project Steering Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare: that APTIMA unisex swabs were provided free of costs by Gen-Probe (San Diego, California, USA). The findings reported in this study do not reflect the opinion of Gen-Probe. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years, no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MF HS SW. Analyzed the data: SW MF DR. Wrote the paper: MF SW HS. Discussed the results and commented on the manuscript: MF SW HS CL CI NP GS DR SA JP. Implemented the study: SW GS.