Detection of microbial cell-free DNA in maternal and umbilical cord plasma in patients with chorioamnionitis using next generation sequencing

• Russell G. Witt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Russell G. Witt, Lily Blair

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3747-8633

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• Lily Blair ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Russell G. Witt, Lily Blair

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

  Affiliation Karius Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

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• Michela Frascoli,

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

  Affiliations Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Michael J. Rosen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Karius Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America, D2G Oncology, Inc: Mountain View, California, United States of America

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• Quoc-Hung Nguyen,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Sivan Bercovici,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Karius Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America

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• Simona Zompi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Karius Inc., Redwood City, California, United States of America, Department of Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Roberto Romero,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Perinatology Research Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/National Institutes of Health/Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, and Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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• Tippi C. Mackenzie

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

  * E-mail: Tippi.Mackenzie@ucsf.edu

  Affiliations Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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