About the Authors

Jessica A. Harris

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica A. Harris, Koushik Roy

Affiliation University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Koushik Roy

Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica A. Harris, Koushik Roy

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Virginia Woo-Rasberry

Affiliation Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

David J. Hamilton

Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Rita Kansal

Affiliation Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Firdausi Qadri

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

James M. Fleckenstein

JFLECKEN@DOM.wustl.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMF. Performed the experiments: JAH KR VW-R DJH RK. Analyzed the data: FQ JMF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FQ. Wrote the paper: JAH JMF.