About the Authors

Peggy S. Lai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pslai@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Joseph G. Allen

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

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Diane S. Hutchinson

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Nadim J. Ajami

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Joseph F. Petrosino

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

Thomas Winters

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Christopher Hug

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Respiratory Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

Gary R. Wartenberg

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Jose Vallarino

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

David C. Christiani

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.