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Rouba El Khatib1 , Dolla Karam-Sarkis1 \*, Anne-Judith Waligora-Dupriet2 and Marie-José Butel2 \*

1 Microbiology Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmacy, Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon

2 UMR-S U 1139, Pathophysiology and Pharmacotoxicology of the Human Placenta, Pre- and Postnatal Microbiota, INSERM, Hospital University Department Risk in Pregnancy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Paris University, France

\*Address all correspondence to: marie-jose.butel@parisdescartes.fr and dolla.sarkis@usj.edu.lb

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