Cervical cytology and associated factors among tribal women of Karnataka, India

• Supriti Ghosh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Supriti Ghosh, Sanjay M. Pattanshetty

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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• Sanjay M. Pattanshetty ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Supriti Ghosh, Sanjay M. Pattanshetty

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

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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• Sneha D. Mallya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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• Deeksha Pandey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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• Vasudeva Guddattu,

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

  Affiliation Department of Data Science, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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• Veena G. Kamath,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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• Shama Prasada Kabekkodu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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• Kapaettu Satyamoorthy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Manipal School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

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• Ranjitha S. Shetty

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

  * E-mail: ranjitha.shetty@manipal.edu

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India, Centre for Indigenous Population, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3210-2293

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