Observational cohort study of the effect of a single lubricant exposure during transvaginal ultrasound on cell-shedding from the vaginal epithelium

• D. Elizabeth O’Hanlon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: D. Elizabeth O’Hanlon, Sarah E. Brown

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Sarah E. Brown ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: D. Elizabeth O’Hanlon, Sarah E. Brown

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8354-0077

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• Xin He,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America

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• Christina A. Stennett,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Sarah J. Robbins,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Elizabeth D. Johnston,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty Physicians Inc., University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Amelia M. Wnorowski,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Katrina Mark,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Jacques Ravel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Richard A. Cone,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Rebecca M. Brotman

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

  * E-mail: rbrotman@som.umaryland.edu

  Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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