Noma Affected Children from Niger Have Distinct Oral Microbial Communities Based on High-Throughput Sequencing of 16S rRNA Gene Fragments

• Katrine L. Whiteson ,

  * E-mail: katrinewhiteson@gmail.com

  Affiliations Genomic Research Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine, Service of Infectious Diseases, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

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• Vladimir Lazarevic,

  Affiliation Genomic Research Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine, Service of Infectious Diseases, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Manuela Tangomo-Bento,

  Affiliation Genomic Research Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine, Service of Infectious Diseases, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Myriam Girard,

  Affiliation Genomic Research Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine, Service of Infectious Diseases, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Heather Maughan,

  Affiliation Ronin Institute, Montclair, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Didier Pittet,

  Affiliation Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Patrice Francois,

  Affiliation Genomic Research Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine, Service of Infectious Diseases, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Jacques Schrenzel,

  Affiliations Genomic Research Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine, Service of Infectious Diseases, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

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• the GESNOMA study group

  ¶Membership of the GESNOMA study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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