How to prepare stool banks for an appropriate response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences in the Netherlands and a retrospective comparative cohort study for faecal microbiota transplantation

• Bas Groenewegen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Emilie van Lingen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Rogier E. Ooijevaar,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Els Wessels,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Mariet C. W. Feltkamp,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Eline Boeije-Koppenol,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Hein W. Verspaget,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Biobanking, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Ed J. Kuijper,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands, Reference Laboratory for C. difficile, LUMC and RIVM (Center for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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• Joffrey van Prehn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

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• Josbert J. Keller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands, Department of Gastroenterology, Haaglanden Medical Center, Den Haag, The Netherlands

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• Elisabeth M. Terveer ,

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

  * E-mail: E.M.Terveer@LUMC.nl

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1994-5421

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• on behalf of the Study Group of the Netherlands Donor Feces Bank

  ¶Membership of the Study Group of the Netherlands Donor Feces Bank is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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