Obesity is associated with lower bacterial vaginosis prevalence in menopausal but not pre-menopausal women in a retrospective analysis of the Women’s Interagency HIV Study

• Elizabeth Daubert,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Cook County Health/Hektoen Institute of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Kathleen M. Weber,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Cook County Health/Hektoen Institute of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Audrey L. French,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, United States of America

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• Dominika Seidman,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Katherine Michel,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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• Deborah Gustafson,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

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• Kerry Murphy,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Montefiore at AECOM, Bronx, NY, United States of America

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• Christina A. Muzny,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Maria Alcaide,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

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• Anandi Sheth,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6305-2727

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• Adaora A. Adimora,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Gregory T. Spear

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: gsgspear@gmail.com

  Affiliation Hektoen Institute of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3985-2414

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