Aberrant cervical innate immunity predicts onset of dysbiosis and sexually transmitted infections in women of reproductive age

• Raina N. Fichorova ,

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

  * E-mail: rfichorova@bwh.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genital Tract Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9980-5735

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• Charles S. Morrison,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Behavioral, Epidemiologic and Clinical Sciences, FHI, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Pai-Lien Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biostatistics, FHI, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Hidemi S. Yamamoto,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genital Tract Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Yashini Govender,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genital Tract Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Damilola Junaid,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genital Tract Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Stanthia Ryan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genital Tract Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Cynthia Kwok,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Biostatistics, FHI, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Tsungai Chipato,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  Affiliation University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Robert A. Salata,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

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• Gustavo F. Doncel

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CONRAD, Arlington, VA, United States of America, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, United States of America

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