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Research ArticleGenomics
Temporal Dynamics of the Human Vaginal Microbiota
- Pawel Gajer1,2,*,
- Rebecca M. Brotman1,3,*,
- Guoyun Bai1,2,
- Joyce Sakamoto1,2,†,
- Ursel M. E. Schütte4,5,‡,
- Xue Zhong5,6,7,§,
- Sara S. K. Koenig1,2,
- Li Fu1,2,
- Zhanshan (Sam) Ma4,5,||,
- Xia Zhou4,5,
- Zaid Abdo5,6,7,
- Larry J. Forney4,5,¶ and
- Jacques Ravel1,2,¶
- 1Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
- 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
- 3Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
- 4Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA.
- 5Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA.
- 6Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA.
- 7Department of Statistics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA.
- ↵¶To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jravel{at}som.umaryland.edu (J.R.); lforney{at}uidaho.edu (L.J.F.)
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↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
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↵† Present address: Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, The Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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↵‡ Present address: School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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↵§ Present address: Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
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↵|| Present address: Computational Biology and Medical Ecology Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
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Science Translational Medicine 02 May 2012:
Vol. 4, Issue 132, pp. 132ra52
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003605
Vol. 4, Issue 132, pp. 132ra52
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003605
Pawel Gajer
Rebecca M. Brotman
Guoyun Bai
Joyce Sakamoto
Ursel M. E. Schütte
Xue Zhong
Sara S. K. Koenig
Li Fu
Zhanshan (Sam) Ma
Xia Zhou
Zaid Abdo
Larry J. Forney
Jacques Ravel
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