Higher serum zinc micronutrient levels are associated with reduced susceptibility to Group B Streptococcus rectovaginal colonisation in pregnant women

• Nisha Dhar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Jennifer Gaddy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• David Michael Aronoff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Kalavati Channa,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Lancet Laboratories, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Shabir Ahmed Madhi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Wits Infectious Diseases and Oncology Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Gaurav Kwatra

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gaurav.kwatra@cchmc.org

  Affiliations South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Paediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2032-1975

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