Characterization of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) microbiota at the time of initial surgical intervention for children with hydrocephalus

• Shailly Pandey ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shailly Pandey, Kathryn B. Whitlock, Paul Hodor, Christopher E. Pope, Tamara D. Simon

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Kathryn B. Whitlock ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shailly Pandey, Kathryn B. Whitlock, Paul Hodor, Christopher E. Pope, Tamara D. Simon

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

  Affiliation New Harmony Statistical Consulting, Clinton, Washington, United States of America

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• Matthew R. Test ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MRT, DDL, PJM, JSH and LRH also contributed equally to this work.

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

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• Paul Hodor ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shailly Pandey, Kathryn B. Whitlock, Paul Hodor, Christopher E. Pope, Tamara D. Simon

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, 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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• Christopher E. Pope ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shailly Pandey, Kathryn B. Whitlock, Paul Hodor, Christopher E. Pope, Tamara D. Simon

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

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

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• David D. Limbrick Jr. ,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MRT, DDL, PJM, JSH and LRH also contributed equally to this work.

  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 Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MRT, DDL, PJM, JSH and LRH also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Section of Neurosurgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Winnipeg Children’s Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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• Jason S. Hauptman ,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MRT, DDL, PJM, JSH and LRH also contributed equally to this work.

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

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• Lucas R. Hoffman ,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MRT, DDL, PJM, JSH and LRH also contributed equally to this work.

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

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• Tamara D. Simon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shailly Pandey, Kathryn B. Whitlock, Paul Hodor, Christopher E. Pope, Tamara D. Simon

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, The Saban Research Institute, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, 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 (CLIMB) Study Group

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

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