Predictive functional analysis reveals inferred features unique to cervicovaginal microbiota of African women with bacterial vaginosis and high-risk human papillomavirus infection

• Harris Onywera ,

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

  * E-mail: harris.onywera@uct.ac.za

  Affiliations Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Research, Innovations, and Academics Unit, Tunacare Services Health Providers Limited, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7298-4921

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• Joseph Anejo-Okopi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Anejo-Okopi, Lamech M. Mwapagha, Javan Okendo

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria, AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria

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• Lamech M. Mwapagha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Anejo-Okopi, Lamech M. Mwapagha, Javan Okendo

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-1787

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• Javan Okendo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph Anejo-Okopi, Lamech M. Mwapagha, Javan Okendo

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Chemical and Systems Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Integrative Biomedical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Centre for Research in Therapeutic Sciences (CREATES), Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8218-5448

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• Anna-Lise Williamson

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

  Affiliations Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, SAMRC Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5467-1200

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