Prevalence and risk factors for cervical HPV infection and abnormalities in young adult women at enrolment in the multinational PATRICIA trial

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Dominique Descamps, Gary Dubin, Edith Roset Bahmanyar and Frank Struyf are employees of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. Dominique Descamps, Gary Dubin, Edith Roset Bahmanyar and Frank Struyf own stock in the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies, Gary Dubin holds patents in the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies and Pfizer, and Suzanne M Garland previously held stock in CSL Ltd. Alice Raillard's employer, 4Clinics, has received consulting fees from GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA. All investigators at study clinical sites were funded through their institutions to do the study protocol. Henry Kitchener, Fred Y Aoki, Willy A J Poppe, F Xavier Bosch, Newton S De Carvalho, Suzanne M Garland, Diane M Harper, S Rachel Skinner, Jorge Salmeron, Tino F Schwarz and Anne Szarewski have received funding through their institutions to do HPV vaccine studies for GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA, CSL Ltd, Merck Sharp & Dohme or Sanofi Pasteur MSD. Fred Y Aoki, F Xavier Bosch, Newton S De Carvalho, Suzanne M Garland, Diane M Harper, Paulo Naud, Barbara Romanowski, Tino F Schwarz, Anne Szarewski and Julio C Teixeira have received honoraria from speaker's bureau or continuing medical education; Fred Y Aoki, F Xavier Bosch, Newton S De Carvalho, Suzanne M Garland, Paulo Naud, Barbara Romanowski, Tino F Schwarz, S Rachel Skinner, Anne Szarewski and Julio C Teixeira have received payment for consultant or advisory board membership; Fred Y Aoki and Anne Szarewski have received travel reimbursements. Xavier Castellsague, Dan Apter, Unnop Jaisamrarn, Matti Lehtinen, Song-Nan Chow, Jorma Paavonen, and Genara Limson declare that they have no conflicts of interest.