A search for bacteria identified from cerebrospinal fluid shunt infections in previous surgical events

• Paul Hodor ,

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

  * E-mail: paul@aurynia.com

  Affiliation Aurynia LLC, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7770-8347

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• Christopher E. Pope,

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

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

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• Kathryn B. Whitlock,

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

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

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• Patrick J. McDonald,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Jason Hauptman,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Lucas R. Hoffman,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  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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• David D. Limbrick Jr.,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  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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• Tamara D. Simon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  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

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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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