A Study of the Vaginal Microbiome in Healthy Canadian Women Utilizing cpn60-Based Molecular Profiling Reveals Distinct Gardnerella Subgroup Community State Types

• Arianne Y. K. Albert ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arianne Y. K. Albert, Bonnie Chaban

  Affiliation Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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• Bonnie Chaban ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Arianne Y. K. Albert, Bonnie Chaban

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

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• Emily C. Wagner,

  Affiliation Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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• John J. Schellenberg,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

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• Matthew G. Links,

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

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• Julie van Schalkwyk,

  Affiliations Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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• Gregor Reid,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada

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• Sean M. Hemmingsen,

  Affiliations National Research Council Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

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• Janet E. Hill,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

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• Deborah Money ,

  * E-mail: dmoney@cw.bc.ca

  Affiliations Women’s Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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• VOGUE Research Group

  ¶Membership of the VOGUE Research Group is provided in the Acknowledgements

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