A study protocol for neonatal sepsis and gut microbiomics among preterm infants admitted at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania

• Fatima M. Mussa ,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: f_mussa@icloud.com (FMM); r.kobbe@uke.de (RK)

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5404-694X

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• Agricola Joachim,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Diagnostic Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Robert Moshiro,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Salim S. Masoud,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Diagnostic Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Marylyn M. Addo,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany, Institute for Infection Research and Vaccine Development (IIRVD), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Julia Pagel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

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• Ralf Krumkamp,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.

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• Robin Kobbe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robin Kobbe, Nahya Salim

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: f_mussa@icloud.com (FMM); r.kobbe@uke.de (RK)

  Affiliations German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany, Institute for Infection Research and Vaccine Development (IIRVD), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-3408

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• Nahya Salim

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robin Kobbe, Nahya Salim

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3784-6478

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