Potential role of the skin and gut microbiota in premenarchal vulvar lichen sclerosus: A pilot case-control study

• Suhana Chattopadhyay ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Suhana Chattopadhyay, Justin D. Arnold

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Justin D. Arnold ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Suhana Chattopadhyay, Justin D. Arnold

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

  Affiliation George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Leena Malayil,

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

  Affiliation Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Lauren Hittle,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Emmanuel F. Mongodin,

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

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

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• Kalyani S. Marathe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Dermatology, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Dermatology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Veronica Gomez-Lobo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Pediatric and Adolescent Obstetrics and Gynecology, MedStar Washington Hospital Center/Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC, United States of America, Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Amy R. Sapkota

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

  * E-mail: ars@umd.edu

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8666-6978

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