Appendiceal microbiome in uncomplicated and complicated acute appendicitis: A prospective cohort study

• Sanja Vanhatalo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Center for Infections and Immunity, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Laboratory Division, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6038-1755

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• Eveliina Munukka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Microbiome Biobank, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, Biocodex Nordics, Espoo, Finland

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• Teemu Kallonen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Center for Infections and Immunity, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Laboratory Division, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, Faculty of Medicine, Microbiome Biobank, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

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• Suvi Sippola,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Digestive Surgery and Urology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, Department of Surgery, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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• Juha Grönroos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Digestive Surgery and Urology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, Department of Surgery, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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• Jussi Haijanen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Digestive Surgery and Urology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, Department of Surgery, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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• Antti J. Hakanen,

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

  Affiliations Research Center for Infections and Immunity, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Laboratory Division, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, Faculty of Medicine, Microbiome Biobank, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland

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• Paulina Salminen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: paulina.salminen@tyks.fi

  Affiliations Division of Digestive Surgery and Urology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, Department of Surgery, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6435-9264

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