Analysis of the tonsillar microbiome in young adults with sore throat reveals a high relative abundance of Fusobacterium necrophorum with low diversity

• T. Prescott Atkinson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: patkinson@peds.uab.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2528-6976

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• Robert M. Centor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Li Xiao,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Fuchenchu Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Xiangqin Cui,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Current address: Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• William Van Der Pol,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Center For Clinical & Translational Science, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Casey D. Morrow,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell, Developmental, & Integrative Biology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Amy E. Ratliff,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Donna M. Crabb,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Arthur H. Totten,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Carlos A. Estrada,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Michael B. Faircloth,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Family & Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Ken B. Waites

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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