A Multi-Country Cross-Sectional Study of Vaginal Carriage of Group B Streptococci (GBS) and Escherichia coli in Resource-Poor Settings: Prevalences and Risk Factors

• Piet Cools,

  Affiliation Laboratory Bacteriology Research, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Vicky Jespers,

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

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

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• Sinead Delany-Moretlwe,

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

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• Mary Mwaura,

  Affiliation ICRH Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya

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• Gilles F. Ndayisaba,

  Affiliation Rinda Ubuzima, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Janneke H. H. M. van de Wijgert,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Mario Vaneechoutte

  * E-mail: mario.vaneechoutte@ugent.be

  Affiliation Laboratory Bacteriology Research, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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