Contribution of bacterial pathogens to evoking serological disease markers and aggravating disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis

• Kuniaki Terato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kuniaki Terato, Kou Katayama

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: terato@chondrex.com

  Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Chondrex Inc. Redmond, WA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8259-1729

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• Takaki Waritani ,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Chondrex Inc. Redmond, WA, United States of America

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• Richio Fukai ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Fukai Pharmacy, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Hiroshi Shionoya ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Research Lab Section 5, Asama Chemicals Inc. Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroshi Itoh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan

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• Kou Katayama

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kuniaki Terato, Kou Katayama

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Katayama Orthopedic Rheumatology Clinic, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

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