Identification and engraftment of new bacterial strains by shotgun metagenomic sequence analysis in patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection before and after fecal microbiota transplantation and in healthy human subjects

• Sandeep Verma ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: docsandeepverma@gmail.com

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally and share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore MD, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8072-6693

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• Sudhir K. Dutta ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally and share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore MD, United States of America, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Elad Firnberg,

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

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore MD, United States of America

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• Laila Phillips,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore MD, United States of America

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• Rakesh Vinayek,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore MD, United States of America

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• Padmanabhan P. Nair

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Noninvasive Technologies, Elkridge, MD, United States of America

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