Self-collected and clinician-collected anal swabs show modest agreement for HPV genotyping

• Racheal S. Dube Mandishora ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: racheal.mand@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe, Infections and Cancer Biology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1154-6829

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• Trine B. Rounge,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2677-2722

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• Megan Fitzpatrick,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Irene Kraus Christiansen,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, The Norwegian HPV Reference Laboratory, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway, Department of Clinical Molecular Biology (EpiGen), Division of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital and University of Oslo, Lørenskog, Norway

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• Ole Herman Ambur,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, OsloMet—Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

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• Sonja Lagström,

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

  Affiliations Department of Research, Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, The Norwegian HPV Reference Laboratory, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway

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• Babill Stray-Pedersen †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Women’s Clinic, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oslo, Norway

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• Massimo Tommasino,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Infections and Cancer Biology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

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• Joel Palefsky ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Zvavahera M. Chirenje

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

  ¶‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe

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