Contraceptive rings promote vaginal lactobacilli in a high bacterial vaginosis prevalence population: A randomised, open-label longitudinal study in Rwandan women

• Tania Crucitti ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tcrucitti@itg.be

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2235-6038

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• Liselotte Hardy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8785-5081

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• Janneke van de Wijgert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2728-4560

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• Stephen Agaba,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rinda Ubuzima, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Jozefien Buyze,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Evelyne Kestelyn,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Rinda Ubuzima, Kigali, Rwanda

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5728-0918

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• Thérèse Delvaux,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Lambert Mwambarangwe,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rinda Ubuzima, Kigali, Rwanda

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• Irith De Baetselier,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1804-252X

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• Vicky Jespers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1856-6390

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• for the Ring Plus study group

  ¶Membership of the Ring Plus Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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