Association between a history of mycobacterial infection and the risk of newly diagnosed Sjögren’s syndrome: A nationwide, population-based case-control study

• Wen-Cheng Chao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Cheng Chao, Ching-Heng Lin

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Business Administration, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9631-8934

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• Ching-Heng Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Cheng Chao, Ching-Heng Lin

  Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Tsai-Ling Liao,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Yi-Ming Chen,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Der-Yuan Chen ,

  * E-mail: shc5555@hotmail.com (HHC); dychen@vghtc.gov.tw (DYC)

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Hsin-Hua Chen

  * E-mail: shc5555@hotmail.com (HHC); dychen@vghtc.gov.tw (DYC)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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