About the Authors
- Sabah Kalyoussef
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Edward Nieves
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Affiliations Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Ellen Dinerman
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Colleen Carpenter
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Viswanathan Shankar
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Jamie Oh
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Berta Burd
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Affiliation Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Ruth H. Angeletti
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Affiliations Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Karen W. Buckheit
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Affiliation ImQuest Biosciences, Fredrick, Maryland, United States of America
- David N. Fredricks
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Rebecca P. Madan
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Marla J. Keller
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Betsy C. Herold
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* E-mail: betsy.herold@einstein.yu.edu
Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
The studies to test whether any of the clinical cervicovaginal lavage samples inhibited L. crispatus were conducted in collaboration with Karen Buckheit at ImQuest Biosciences. There are no competing interests. The collaboration with ImQuest does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BH DF EN MK RM RA. Performed the experiments: SK ED CC JO BB KB. Analyzed the data: EN VS DF RM MK BH. Wrote the paper: BH RM MK DF EN.