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Original Article

Gravidas with class III obesity: evaluating the abdominal skin microbiota above and below the panniculus*

Rodney K. EdwardsDivision of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Women’s Reproductive Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, Correspondence[email protected]
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Ranjit KumarBiomedical Informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA,
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Degui ZhiDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA,
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Jeffrey SzychowskiDivision of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Women’s Reproductive Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, ;Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA,
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Akila SubramaniamDivision of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Women’s Reproductive Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA,
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Elliot J. LefkowitzBiomedical Informatics, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, ;Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, and
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Casey MorrowDepartment of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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Pages 3312-3316 | Received 09 Sep 2015, Accepted 20 Nov 2015, Published online: 23 Dec 2015

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