Gut microbiota features associated with Clostridioides difficile colonization in puppies

• Alexander S. F. Berry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander S. F. Berry, Laurel E. Redding

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

  Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Brendan J. Kelly ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-646X

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• Denise Barnhart ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Donna J. Kelly ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Daniel P. Beiting,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Robert N. Baldassano,

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

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Laurel E. Redding

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander S. F. Berry, Laurel E. Redding

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

  * E-mail: lredding@vet.upenn.edu

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3414-1202

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