Molecular characterisation of the synovial fluid microbiome in rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy control subjects

• Dargham Bayan Mohsen Hammad,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Newcastle, England, United Kingdom

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• Veranja Liyanapathirana,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka

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• Daniel Paul Tonge

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

  * E-mail: d.p.tonge@keele.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Newcastle, England, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3499-2752

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