Feasibility of investigating the association between bacterial pathogens and oral leukoplakia in low and middle income countries: A population-based pilot study in India

• Krithiga Shridhar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: g.krithiga@phfi.org

  Affiliations Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India, Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3730-6498

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• Aastha Aggarwal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India, Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India

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• Ishita Rawal,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India

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• Ruby Gupta,

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

  Affiliations Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India, Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India

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• Shet Masih,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Diagnostics Research Laboratory, Chandigarh, India

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• Ravi Mehrotra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations India Cancer Research Consortium, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Theresa W. Gillespie,

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

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Preet K. Dhillon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India, Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India, Genentech Roche, California, United States of America

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• Dominique S. Michaud,

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health & Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Dorairaj Prabhakaran ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Michael Goodman

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India, Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Michael Goodman

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Michael Goodman

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6956-6879

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