Association between Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhea, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Trichomonas vaginalis and Secondary Infertility in Cameroon: A case-control study

• Clarisse Engowei Mbah ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: engoweiclarise@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plants Studies, Center for Research on Health and Priority Pathologies, Yaoundé, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8759-1234

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• Amy Jasani,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Kristal J. Aaron,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9285-7321

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• Jane-Francis Akoachere,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plants Studies, Center for Research on Health and Priority Pathologies, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Alan T. N. Tita,

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

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• William M. Geisler,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Barbara Van Der Pol,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Jodie Dionne-Odom ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jodie Dionne-Odom, Jules Clement Assob Ngeudia

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Jules Clement Assob Ngeudia

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jodie Dionne-Odom, Jules Clement Assob Ngeudia

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

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicines, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon

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