Exploring the prevalence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in PAP smear samples of women in northern region of United Arab Emirates (UAE): HPV Direct Flow CHIP system-based pilot study

• Heba Issa Odeh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Heba Issa Odeh, Sara Rashid Al-badi, Basma Karima, Takrim Abdulwali Saeed

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6352-044X

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• Sara Rashid Al-badi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Heba Issa Odeh, Sara Rashid Al-badi, Basma Karima, Takrim Abdulwali Saeed

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5764-0899

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• Basma Karima ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Heba Issa Odeh, Sara Rashid Al-badi, Basma Karima, Takrim Abdulwali Saeed

  Roles Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

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• Takrim Abdulwali Saeed ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Heba Issa Odeh, Sara Rashid Al-badi, Basma Karima, Takrim Abdulwali Saeed

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

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• Nazeerullah Rahamathullah ,

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

  * E-mail: dr.nazeer@gmu.ac.ae (NR); dr.eman@gmu.ac.ae (EHI); dr.maykhalil@gmu.ac.ae (MKI)

  ¶‡ This author also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates, Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-3780

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• Eman Hassan Ibrahim ,

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

  * E-mail: dr.nazeer@gmu.ac.ae (NR); dr.eman@gmu.ac.ae (EHI); dr.maykhalil@gmu.ac.ae (MKI)

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

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• May Khalil Ismail ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dr.nazeer@gmu.ac.ae (NR); dr.eman@gmu.ac.ae (EHI); dr.maykhalil@gmu.ac.ae (MKI)

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3408-8971

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• Zahra Arshad Khan

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates, Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8094-8595

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