Characterization of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) microbiota from patients with CSF shunt infection and reinfection using high throughput sequencing of 16S ribosomal RNAgenes

• Kathryn B. Whitlock,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New Harmony Statistical Consulting LLC, Shoreline, Washington, United States of America

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• Christopher E. Pope,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Paul Hodor,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7770-8347

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• Lucas R. Hoffman,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• David L. Limbrick Jr.,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Patrick J. McDonald,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Neurosurgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Jason S. Hauptman,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Jeffrey G. Ojemann,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Tamara D. Simon ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: tsimon@chla.usc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and The Saban Research Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4734-7020

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• on behalf of the Cerebrospinal FLuId MicroBiota in Shunts Study (CLIMB) Group

  ¶Membership of the CLIMB Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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