About the Authors

Shailly Pandey

Contributed equally to this work with: Shailly Pandey, Kathryn B. Whitlock, Paul Hodor, Christopher E. Pope, Tamara D. Simon

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kathryn B. Whitlock

Contributed equally to this work with: Shailly Pandey, Kathryn B. Whitlock, Paul Hodor, Christopher E. Pope, Tamara D. Simon

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New Harmony Statistical Consulting, Clinton, Washington, United States of America

Matthew R. Test

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ MRT, DDL, PJM, JSH and LRH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Paul Hodor

Contributed equally to this work with: Shailly Pandey, Kathryn B. Whitlock, Paul Hodor, Christopher E. Pope, Tamara D. Simon

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Christopher E. Pope

Contributed equally to this work with: Shailly Pandey, Kathryn B. Whitlock, Paul Hodor, Christopher E. Pope, Tamara D. Simon

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

David D. Limbrick Jr.

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ MRT, DDL, PJM, JSH and LRH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Patrick J. McDonald

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ MRT, DDL, PJM, JSH and LRH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Section of Neurosurgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Winnipeg Children’s Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Jason S. Hauptman

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ MRT, DDL, PJM, JSH and LRH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lucas R. Hoffman

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

‡ MRT, DDL, PJM, JSH and LRH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Tamara D. Simon

Contributed equally to this work with: Shailly Pandey, Kathryn B. Whitlock, Paul Hodor, Christopher E. Pope, Tamara D. Simon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tsimon@chla.usc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, The Saban Research Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

on behalf of the Cerebrospinal FLuId MicroBiota in Shunts (CLIMB) Study Group

Membership of the CLIMB Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.