Assessing the relationship between menstrual products and reproductive and urogenital tract infections (RUTIs): A systematic review evaluating the evidence and recommendations for future research

• Ana Krause ,

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

  * E-mail: akrause2@uw.edu

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9665-5102

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• Gregory K. Zane,

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7169-3762

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• Andrea C. Rivas-Nieto,

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Abigail Mulugeta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Md. Rezaul Hossain,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9107-1506

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• R. Scott McClelland,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Jairam R. Lingappa,

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

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Stephen E. Hawes

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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