Distinct mucosal microbial communities in infants with surgical necrotizing enterocolitis correlate with age and antibiotic exposure

• Joann Romano-Keeler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joann Romano-Keeler, Meghan H. Shilts

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Meghan H. Shilts ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joann Romano-Keeler, Meghan H. Shilts

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

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

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• Andrey Tovchigrechko,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Research Bioinformatics, Medimmune, Gaithersburg, Maryland, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Chunlin Wang,

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

  Affiliation Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

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• Robert M. Brucker,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: The Rowland Institute at Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Daniel J. Moore,

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

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Christopher Fonnesbeck,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Shufang Meng,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Hernan Correa,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Harold N. Lovvorn III,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Surgery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Yi-Wei Tang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Lora Hooper,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Seth R. Bordenstein,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Suman R. Das,

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

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2496-9724

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• Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hendrik.weitkamp@vanderbilt.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6654-4823

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