Microbiome analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) specimens from immunocompromised patients with pneumonia compared to those from healthy volunteers

• Zareen Fatima ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zareen Fatima, Matthew D. Surette

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Matthew D. Surette ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zareen Fatima, Matthew D. Surette

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

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• Sarah Marttala,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada

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• Daniela Leto,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton, Canada

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• Padman Jayaratne,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton, Canada

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• Fiona Smaill,

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

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton, Canada

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• Marek Smieja,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton, Canada

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• Mohammad Rubayet Hasan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hasanm51@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Hamilton, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4658-7949

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