Usability of rectal swabs for microbiome sampling in a cohort study of hematological and oncological patients

• Lena M. Biehl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lena M. Biehl, Debora Garzetti

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

  Affiliations University of Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Debora Garzetti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lena M. Biehl, Debora Garzetti

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

  Affiliations Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Fedja Farowski,

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

  Affiliations University of Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Diana Ring,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Martin B. Koeppel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Holger Rohde,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Hamburg-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany

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• Philippe Schafhausen,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oncology and Hematology, Hubertus Wald Tumorzentrum/University Cancer Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Bärbel Stecher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Maria J. G. T. Vehreschild

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maria.vehreschild@uk-koeln.de

  Affiliations University of Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Infectious Diseases Unit, Medical Clinic II, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7282-2842

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