VIRGO2: an enhanced gene catalog of the vaginal microbiome provides insights into its functional and ecology complexity
Year: 2025
Type: article
Language: en
Topic: Reproductive tract infections research
Authors and affiliations:
raw_author_name: Michael T. France
raw_affiliation_strings: Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Issac Chaudry
raw_affiliation_strings: Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Lindsay Rutt
raw_affiliation_strings: Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Melanie Quain
raw_affiliation_strings: Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Breanna Shirtliff
raw_affiliation_strings: Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Elias McComb
raw_affiliation_strings: Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Amaury Maros
raw_affiliation_strings: Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Madeline Alizadeh
raw_affiliation_strings: Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Fatima A. Hussain
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
raw_author_name: Michal A. Elovitz
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
Women's Biomedical Research Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
raw_author_name: David A. Relman
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Infectious Diseases Section, Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA
raw_author_name: Anisur Rahman
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raw_author_name: Rebecca M. Brotman
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Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Joan T. Price
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
UNC Global Projects-Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
UNC Global Projects–Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
raw_author_name: Margaret P. Kassaro
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
UNC Global Projects-Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
UNC Global Projects–Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
raw_author_name: Johanna B. Holm
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Bing Ma
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
raw_author_name: Jacques Ravel
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. jravel@som.umaryland.edu
Center for Advanced Microbiome Research and Innovation, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA