Foreskin surface area is not associated with sub-preputial microbiome composition or penile cytokines

• Godfrey Kigozi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Godfrey Kigozi, Cindy M. Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda

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• Cindy M. Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Godfrey Kigozi, Cindy M. Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Daniel Park,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5139-5397

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• Zoe R. Packman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Ronald H. Gray,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Rupert Kaul,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1586-4093

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• Aaron A. R. Tobian,

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

  Affiliations Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Alison G. Abraham,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Joseph Ssekasanvu,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Joseph Kagaayi,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda

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• Jessica L. Prodger

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

  * E-mail: jprodge@uwo.ca

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0805-4196

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