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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2020YFC0861000), Beijing Nova Program (Z201100006820127), International Innovation Resource Cooperation Project, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (Z201100008320024), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31861143026, 91940304 and 21825701) and Epidemic Prevention and Control Special Project, Peking University. The funders played no role in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, report writing, or decision to submit the paper for publication. The authors would like to thank Vazyme Biotech in Nanjing, China, for assisting in library procedure optimization and providing library preparation kits. In addition, the authors would like to thank National Center for Protein Sciences at Peking University in Beijing, China, for assistance with experiments. Part of the analysis was performed on the High Performance Computing Platform of the Center for Life Science (Peking University).
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Xiao, M., Lu, B., Ding, R. et al. Metatranscriptomic analysis of host response and vaginal microbiome of patients with severe COVID-19. Sci. China Life Sci. 65, 1473–1476 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-2091-0
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