Association between heavy metal exposure and bacterial vaginosis: A cross-sectional study

• Yu-Xue Feng,

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

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Medicine, The First School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1356-3441

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• Ming-Zhi Tan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Medicine, The First School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Hui-Han Qiu,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Medicine, The First School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Jie-Rong Chen,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Medicine, The First School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Si-Zhe Wang,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Medicine, The Nanshan College of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Ze-Min Huang,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Medicine, The Third School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-259X

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• Xu-Guang Guo

  Roles Conceptualization

  * E-mail: gysygxg@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Clinical Medicine, The Third School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Clinical Rapid Diagnosis and Early Warning of Infectious Diseases, King Med School of Laboratory Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Higher Education Joint Laboratory of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1302-5234

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