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In 1992, during one of his visits back to Bermuda, Dr. Clyde Wilson met the physician Dr. Henry Subair who expressed an interest in the work of the ‘Immunology Unit’ at King’s College in London. He mentioned that he had patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis especially women and would be willing to participate in a study to investigate whether his Bermudian patients had similar antibodies to the ones described in English patients with rheumatoid arthritis from London.
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Ebringer, A. (2011). Antibodies to Proteus in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients from Bermuda and from Hertfordshire in England. In: Rheumatoid Arthritis and Proteus. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-950-5_5
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