Kjersti Aagaard is a practicing maternal–fetal medicine obstetrician at Texas Children’s and Ben Taub Hospitals and a reproductive biologist at Baylor College of Medicine. She studies a myriad of aspects of the microbiome, including how it can influence pregnancy and the developing infant.
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Aagaard, K. A life exposed (and better for it). Nat Med 25, 195 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0341-6
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