Primary Screening for Cervical Cancer Based on High-Risk Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Detection and HPV 16 and HPV 18 Genotyping, in Comparison to Cytology

• Theodoros Agorastos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Theodoros Agorastos, Kimon Chatzistamatiou, Taxiarchis Katsamagkas, George Koliopoulos, Alexandros Daponte

  Affiliation 4th Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokratio General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

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• Kimon Chatzistamatiou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Theodoros Agorastos, Kimon Chatzistamatiou, Taxiarchis Katsamagkas, George Koliopoulos, Alexandros Daponte

  * E-mail: kimon.chatzistamatiou@gmail.com

  Affiliation 4th Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokratio General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

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• Taxiarchis Katsamagkas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Theodoros Agorastos, Kimon Chatzistamatiou, Taxiarchis Katsamagkas, George Koliopoulos, Alexandros Daponte

  Affiliation 4th Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Hippokratio General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

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• George Koliopoulos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Theodoros Agorastos, Kimon Chatzistamatiou, Taxiarchis Katsamagkas, George Koliopoulos, Alexandros Daponte

  Affiliation 3rd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Athens, Attikon Hospital, Athens, Greece

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• Alexandros Daponte ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Theodoros Agorastos, Kimon Chatzistamatiou, Taxiarchis Katsamagkas, George Koliopoulos, Alexandros Daponte

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Thessaly, General University Hospital, Larissa, Greece

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• Theocharis Constantinidis ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Peripheral Laboratory of Public Health, Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ministry of Health, Alexandroupoli, Greece

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• Theodoros C. Constantinidis ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Hygiene and Environmental Protection / Laboratory of Microbiology, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupoli, Greece

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• and the HERMES study group

  ¶The full list of the authors constituting the HERMES study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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