About the Authors
- Jonna Jalanka-Tuovinen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jonna Jalanka-Tuovinen, Anne Salonen
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Anne Salonen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jonna Jalanka-Tuovinen, Anne Salonen
* E-mail: anne.salonen@helsinki.fi
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Janne Nikkilä
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Current address: Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Helsinki, Finland
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Outi Immonen
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Riina Kekkonen
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Affiliation Research & Development, Valio Ltd, Helsinki, Finland
- Leo Lahti
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Airi Palva
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Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Willem M. de Vos
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Affiliations Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
One of the authors (RAK) is employed by a commercial company (Valio Ltd). This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, and the content of this paper was neither influenced nor constrained by that fact.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ-T AS JN WMdV. Performed the experiments: OI JJ-T. Analyzed the data: JJ-T AS JN LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP RAK JN LL WMdV. Wrote the paper: AS JJ-T JN WMdV.