A Metagenomic Approach to Characterization of the Vaginal Microbiome Signature in Pregnancy

• Kjersti Aagaard ,

  * E-mail: aagaardt@bcm.edu

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Kevin Riehle,

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Jun Ma,

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Nicola Segata,

  Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Toni-Ann Mistretta,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Cristian Coarfa,

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Sabeen Raza,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Sean Rosenbaum,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Ignatia Van den Veyver,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Aleksandar Milosavljevic,

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Research Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Dirk Gevers,

  Affiliation Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Curtis Huttenhower,

  Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Joseph Petrosino,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• James Versalovic

  Affiliation Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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