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About the Authors
- Michael T. France
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Sarah E. Brown
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Anne M. Rompalo
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Rebecca M. Brotman
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Jacques Ravel
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: jravel@som.umaryland.edu
Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Ravel is a co-founder of LUCA Biologics, a biotechnology company focused on translating microbiome research into live biotherapeutics for women’s health. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.