Molecular analyses indicate profuse bacterial diversity in primary and post- treatment endodontic infections within a cohort from the United Arab Emirates-A preliminary study

• Sheela B. Abraham ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheela B. Abraham, Farah Al-Marzooq, Lakshman Samaranayake

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sabraham@sharjah.ac.ae

  Affiliation Department of Restorative Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1930-8625

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• Farah Al-Marzooq ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheela B. Abraham, Farah Al-Marzooq, Lakshman Samaranayake

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5711-6264

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• Lakshman Samaranayake ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheela B. Abraham, Farah Al-Marzooq, Lakshman Samaranayake

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

  Affiliations Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Faculty of Dentistry, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

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• Rifat Akram Hamoudi ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ RAH, WHHA and HMAA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Research Institute for Medical and Health Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom, ASPIRE Precision Medicine Research Institute Abu Dhabi, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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• Wan Harun Himratul-Aznita ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ RAH, WHHA and HMAA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

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• Hany Mohamed Aly Ahmed

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ RAH, WHHA and HMAA also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

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