About the Authors

Sharon M. Tennant

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Souleymane Diallo

Affiliations Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (CVD-Mali), Bamako, Mali, Hôpital Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali

Haim Levy

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel

Sofie Livio

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Samba O. Sow

Affiliation Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (CVD-Mali), Bamako, Mali

Milagritos Tapia

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (CVD-Mali), Bamako, Mali

Patricia I. Fields

Affiliation National Salmonella Reference Laboratory, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Matthew Mikoleit

Affiliation National Salmonella Reference Laboratory, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Boubou Tamboura

Affiliation Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (CVD-Mali), Bamako, Mali

Karen L. Kotloff

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

James P. Nataro

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

James E. Galen

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Myron M. Levine

mlevine@medicine.umaryland.edu

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMT HL MML. Performed the experiments: SMT SD HL SL SOS MT MM BT KLK JEG. Analyzed the data: SMT SL SOS MT PIF BT JPN MML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SD HL SL SOS PIF MM KLK JPN JEG. Wrote the paper: SMT MML.