The gut microbiome in sickle cell disease: Characterization and potential implications

• Hassan Brim ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hbrim@howard.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Center, Microbiology and Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7055-2298

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• James Taylor,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Center, Microbiology and Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Muneer Abbas,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Center, Microbiology and Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Kimberly Vilmenay,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Center, Microbiology and Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Mohammad Daremipouran,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Center, Microbiology and Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0744-9129

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• Sudhir Varma,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Hithru Analytics, Laurel, MD, United States of America

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• Edward Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Center, Microbiology and Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Betty Pace,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation University of Augusta, Augusta, GA, United States of America

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• Waogwende L. Song-Naba,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

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• Kalpna Gupta,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America, Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Southern California Institute for Research and Education, Long Beach VA Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA, United States of America

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• Sergei Nekhai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Center, Microbiology and Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Patricia O’Neil,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5480-1186

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• Hassan Ashktorab

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Medicine, Cancer Center, Microbiology and Center for Sickle Cell Disease, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

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