A cross-sectional pilot study of birth mode and vaginal microbiota in reproductive-age women

• Christina A. Stennett,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Typhanye V. Dyer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8493-5772

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• Xin He,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Maryland, Maryland, United States of America

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• Courtney K. Robinson,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jacques Ravel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0851-2233

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• Khalil G. Ghanem,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Rebecca M. Brotman

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

  * E-mail: rbrotman@som.umaryland.edu

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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