Novel Device to Sample the Esophageal Microbiome—The Esophageal String Test

• Sophie A. Fillon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie A. Fillon, J. Kirk Harris

  * E-mail: sophie.fillon@ucdenver.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Digestive Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Diseases Program, Mucosal Inflammation Program, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• J. Kirk Harris ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie A. Fillon, J. Kirk Harris

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonology, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Brandie D. Wagner,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Caleb J. Kelly,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Digestive Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Diseases Program, Mucosal Inflammation Program, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Mark J. Stevens,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonology, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Wendy Moore,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Digestive Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Diseases Program, Mucosal Inflammation Program, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Rui Fang,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Shauna Schroeder,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Digestive Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Diseases Program, Mucosal Inflammation Program, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Joanne C. Masterson,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Digestive Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Diseases Program, Mucosal Inflammation Program, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Charles E. Robertson,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

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• Norman R. Pace,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

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• Steven J. Ackerman,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Glenn T. Furuta

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Digestive Health Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Diseases Program, Mucosal Inflammation Program, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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