Gut microbiome of mothers delivering prematurely shows reduced diversity and lower relative abundance of Bifidobacterium and Streptococcus

• Cecilie Dahl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6831-2770

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• Maggie Stanislawski,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Colorado School of Medicine, Colorado, United States of America

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• Nina Iszatt,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Siddhartha Mandal,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, India

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• Catherine Lozupone,

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

  Affiliation University of Colorado School of Medicine, Colorado, United States of America

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• Jose C. Clemente,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Genomics & Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States of America

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• Rob Knight,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Computer Science & Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States of America

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• Hein Stigum,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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• Merete Eggesbø

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: merete.eggesbo@fhi.no

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Exposure and Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

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