Prevalence and Correlates of Bacterial Vaginosis in Different Sub-Populations of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Sectional Study

• Vicky Jespers ,

  * E-mail: vjespers@itg.be

  Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology and Control of HIV/STD, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Tania Crucitti,

  Affiliation HIV/STI Reference Laboratory, Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Joris Menten,

  Affiliation Clinical Trials Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Rita Verhelst,

  Affiliation International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Mary Mwaura,

  Affiliation ICRH Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya

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• Kishor Mandaliya,

  Affiliation ICRH Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya

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• Gilles F. Ndayisaba,

  Affiliation Rinda Ubuzima, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Sinead Delany-Moretlwe,

  Affiliation Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Hans Verstraelen,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Liselotte Hardy,

  Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology and Control of HIV/STD, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Anne Buvé,

  Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology and Control of HIV/STD, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Janneke van de Wijgert,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, and AMC-CPCD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• for the Vaginal Biomarkers Study Group

  ¶Membership of the Vaginal Biomarkers Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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