About the Authors

Elisabet Josefsson

elisabet.josefsson@rheuma.gu.se

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

Judy Higgins

Affiliation Microbiology Department, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Timothy J. Foster

Affiliation Microbiology Department, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Andrej Tarkowski

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden

Competing Interests

There is a pending patent application on some of the data of this paper.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TF AT EJ. Performed the experiments: EJ JH. Analyzed the data: TF AT EJ JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TF AT EJ JH. Wrote the paper: TF AT EJ JH.