Comparative analysis of the vaginal microbiome of pregnant women with either Trichomonas vaginalis or Chlamydia trachomatis

• Simon Chengo Masha ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: schengo@gmail.com

  Affiliations KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya, Laboratory for Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Biological Sciences, Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6283-2430

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• Collins Owuor,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7830-5475

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• Joyce Mwongeli Ngoi,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Piet Cools,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory for Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Eduard J. Sanders,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1062-8921

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• Mario Vaneechoutte,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory for Bacteriology Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Tania Crucitti ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

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

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

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• Etienne P. de Villiers

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine Research Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Public Health, Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya

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