Saliva sampling method influences oral microbiome composition and taxa distribution associated with oral diseases

• Cristian Roca ,

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

  ¶‡ CR and AAA are contributed equally to this work and are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Marsico Lung Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Alaa A. Alkhateeb ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CR and AAA are contributed equally to this work and are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Dental Health Sciences, School of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Oral Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Bryson K. Deanhardt,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jade K. Macdonald,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marsico Lung Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Donald L. Chi,

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

  Affiliations Department of Oral Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2289-7747

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• Jeremy R. Wang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0673-9418

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• Matthew C. Wolfgang

  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: matthew_wolfgang@med.unc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Marsico Lung Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4534-6470

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