Vaginal delivery provides skin colonization resistance from environmental microbes in the NICU

• Prem Prashant Chaudhary,
• Brynn O'Laughlin,
• Purnima S. Kumar,
• Shareef M. Dabdoub,
• Shira Levy,
• Ian A. Myles,
• Suchitra K. Hourigan

Affiliations

Prem Prashant Chaudhary

Epithelial Therapeutics Unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland USA

Brynn O'Laughlin

Clinical Microbiome Unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland USA

Purnima S. Kumar

Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine University of Michigan School of Dentistry Ann Arbor Michigan USA

Shareef M. Dabdoub

Division of Biostatistics and Computational Biology College of Dentistry University of Iowa Iowa City Iowa USA

Shira Levy

Clinical Microbiome Unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland USA

Ian A. Myles

Epithelial Therapeutics Unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland USA

Suchitra K. Hourigan

Clinical Microbiome Unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland USA