‘From women for women’: A citizen science approach engaging women in the isolation and application of the vaginal health-associated bacterium Lactobacillus crispatus

• Shardelice Illidge,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Remco Kort ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: r.kort@vu.nl

  Affiliations Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Stichting crispatus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ARTIS-Micropia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3674-598X

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• Rosanne Hertzberger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Stichting crispatus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• The Dutch crispatus Citizen Science Collective

  ¶Membership of The Dutch crispatus Citizen Science Collective Group is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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