Screening for Staphylococcal Superantigen Genes Shows No Correlation with the Presence or the Severity of Chronic Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyposis

• Frédéric Heymans ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frédéric Heymans, Adrien Fischer, Nicholas W. Stow

  Affiliation Rhinology-Olfactology Unit, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and ENT Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Adrien Fischer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frédéric Heymans, Adrien Fischer, Nicholas W. Stow

  Affiliation Genomic Research Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Nicholas W. Stow ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frédéric Heymans, Adrien Fischer, Nicholas W. Stow

  Affiliation Rhinology-Olfactology Unit, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and ENT Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Myriam Girard,

  Affiliation Genomic Research Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Zacharias Vourexakis,

  Affiliation Rhinology-Olfactology Unit, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and ENT Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Antoine Des Courtis,

  Affiliation Rhinology-Olfactology Unit, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and ENT Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Gesuele Renzi,

  Affiliation Central Laboratory of Bacteriology, Department of Medical Genetics and Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Elzbieta Huggler,

  Affiliation Genomic Research Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Stefan Vlaminck,

  Affiliation AZ Sint-Jan AV, Bruges, Belgium

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• Pierre Bonfils,

  Affiliation Department of ENT Head and Neck Surgery, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France

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• Ranko Mladina,

  Affiliation Department of ENT Head and Neck Surgery, Clinical Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia

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• Valerie Lund,

  Affiliation UCL EAR Institute of Laryngology and Otology, London, United Kingdom

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• Jacques Schrenzel,

  Affiliations Genomic Research Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, Central Laboratory of Bacteriology, Department of Medical Genetics and Laboratory Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Patrice François,

  Affiliation Genomic Research Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Jean Silvain Lacroix

  * E-mail: silvain.lacroix@hcuge.ch

  Affiliation Rhinology-Olfactology Unit, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and ENT Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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