The importance of understanding pelvic inflammatory disease as a polymicrobial infection - authors' reply

Zoïe W Alexiou; Bernice M Hoenderboom; Christian J P A Hoebe; Nicole H T M Dukers-Muijrers; Hannelore M Götz; Marianne A B van der Sande; Henry J C de Vries; Janneke E den Hartog; Servaas A Morré; Birgit H B van Benthem

doi:10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101116

The importance of understanding pelvic inflammatory disease as a polymicrobial infection - authors' reply

Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2024 Oct 30:47:101116. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101116. eCollection 2024 Dec.

Authors

Zoïe W Alexiou^{1

2

3}, Bernice M Hoenderboom^{1

2}, Christian J P A Hoebe^{4

3

5}, Nicole H T M Dukers-Muijrers^{4

5}, Hannelore M Götz^{6

7}, Marianne A B van der Sande⁸, Henry J C de Vries^{9

10

11

12}, Janneke E den Hartog^{13

14}, Servaas A Morré^{2

15

16}, Birgit H B van Benthem¹

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
² Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG), GROW Research Institute for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Social Medicine, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Health Promotion, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
⁵ Department of Sexual Health, Infectious Diseases, and Environmental Health, Living Lab Public Health Mosa, Public Health Service South Limburg, the Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Public Health, Municipal Public Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁷ Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
⁸ Department Global Public Health, Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
⁹ Department of Dermatology, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
¹⁰ Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
¹¹ Center for Sexual Health, Department of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
¹² Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
¹³ GROW Research Institute for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
¹⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maastricht University Medical Center +, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
¹⁵ Dutch Chlamydia Trachomatis Reference Laboratory, Department of Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC+), Maastricht, the Netherlands.
¹⁶ Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, Jacob Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, India.

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