Self-Collected versus Clinician-Collected Sampling for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis

Carole Lunny; Darlene Taylor; Linda Hoang; Tom Wong; Mark Gilbert; Richard Lester; Mel Krajden; Gina Ogilvie

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132776

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Self-Collected versus Clinician-Collected Sampling for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis

Carole Lunny ,

* E-mail: carole.lunny@monash.edu

Affiliations Division of STI/HIV Prevention and Control, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Australasian Cochrane Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Darlene Taylor,

Affiliations Division of STI/HIV Prevention and Control, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Linda Hoang,

Affiliations Division of STI/HIV Prevention and Control, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Tom Wong,

Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Mark Gilbert,

Affiliations Division of STI/HIV Prevention and Control, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Richard Lester,

Affiliations Division of STI/HIV Prevention and Control, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Mel Krajden,

Affiliations Division of STI/HIV Prevention and Control, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Gina Ogilvie

Affiliations Division of STI/HIV Prevention and Control, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Self-Collected versus Clinician-Collected Sampling for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis

Carole Lunny,
Darlene Taylor,
Linda Hoang,
Tom Wong,
Mark Gilbert,
Richard Lester,
Mel Krajden,
Gina Ogilvie

Published: July 13, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132776

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