Bacterial DNA is present in the fetal intestine and overlaps with that in the placenta in mice

• Keith A. Martinez II ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Keith A. Martinez II, Joann Romano-Keeler

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Sackler Institute, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Translational Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Joann Romano-Keeler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Keith A. Martinez II, Joann Romano-Keeler

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Mednax Corporation, St. Thomas Midtown, Division of Neonatology Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Joseph P. Zackular,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Daniel J. Moore,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Robert M. Brucker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Current address: The Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Christopher Hooper,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Shufang Meng,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Naoko Brown,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Simon Mallal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia

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• Jeff Reese,

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

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• David M. Aronoff,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Hakdong Shin,

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

  Current address: Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  Affiliation Department of Translational Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hendrik.weitkamp@vanderbilt.edu (JHW); mg.dominguez-bello@rutgers.edu (MGDB)

  Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Sackler Institute, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hendrik.weitkamp@vanderbilt.edu (JHW); mg.dominguez-bello@rutgers.edu (MGDB)

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6654-4823

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