Usefulness of polymerase chain reaction for diagnosing Whipple’s disease in rheumatology

• Marion Herbette,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, Hôpital de la Cavale Blanche, Brest, France

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• Jean Baptiste Cren,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, CHU d’Angers,Angers, France

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• Laurie Joffres,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rheumatology Unit CHRU de Poitiers,Poitiers, France

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• Charlotte Lucas,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, CHU, Hôpital Sud, Rennes, France

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• Emilie Ricard,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rheumatology and bacteriology Units, CHR, Orléans, France

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• Carine Salliot,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rheumatology and bacteriology Units, CHR, Orléans, France

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• Jérôme Guinard,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rheumatology and bacteriology Units, CHR, Orléans, France

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• Aleth Perdriger,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, CHU, Hôpital Sud, Rennes, France

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• Elisabeth Solau-Gervais,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rheumatology Unit CHRU de Poitiers,Poitiers, France

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• Béatrice Bouvard,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rheumatology Unit, CHU d’Angers,Angers, France

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• Alain Saraux ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alain.saraux@chu-brest.fr

  Affiliations Rheumatology Unit, Hôpital de la Cavale Blanche, Brest, France, UMR1227, Lymphocytes B et Autoimmunité, Université de Brest, LabEx IGO, Brest, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8454-7067

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• on behalf of the Société de Rhumatologie de l’Ouest and the network VICTOR HUGO

  ¶Membership of Société de Rhumatologie de l’Ouest and the network VICTOR HUGO is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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