The Microbial Communities in Male First Catch Urine Are Highly Similar to Those in Paired Urethral Swab Specimens

• Qunfeng Dong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson

  Affiliations Department of Biology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

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• David E. Nelson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qunfeng Dong, David E. Nelson

  * E-mail: bvanderp@indiana.edu (BVDP); nelsonde@indiana.edu (DEN)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Evelyn Toh,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Lixia Diao,

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Xiang Gao,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

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• J. Dennis Fortenberry,

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

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• Barbara Van Der Pol

  * E-mail: bvanderp@indiana.edu (BVDP); nelsonde@indiana.edu (DEN)

  Affiliations Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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