Characterization of Human Papillomavirus prevalence and risk factors to guide cervical cancer screening in the North Tongu District, Ghana

• Amrei Krings,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinic for Gynecology, Laboratory for Gynecologic Tumor Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9638-0885

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• Priscilla Dunyo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Catholic Hospital Battor, Battor, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Aleksandra Pesic,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Clinic for Gynecology, Laboratory for Gynecologic Tumor Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

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• Saviour Tetteh,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Catholic Hospital Battor, Battor, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Benjamin Hansen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Catholic Hospital Battor, Battor, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Isaac Gedzah,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Catholic Hospital Battor, Battor, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Comfort M. Wormenor,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Catholic Hospital Battor, Battor, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Joseph E. Amuah,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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• Anna-Lisa Behnke,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Clinic for Gynecology, Laboratory for Gynecologic Tumor Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8118-7051

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• Daniela Höfler,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Diagnostics of Oncogenic Infections, Research Program Infection, Inflammation and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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• Michael Pawlita,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Diagnostics of Oncogenic Infections, Research Program Infection, Inflammation and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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• Andreas M. Kaufmann

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: andreas.kaufmann@charite.de

  Affiliation Clinic for Gynecology, Laboratory for Gynecologic Tumor Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7732-3009

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