About the Authors
- Gökçe Günaydın
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Beatriz Álvarez
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Yin Lin
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Lennart Hammarström
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
- Harold Marcotte
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* E-mail: harold.marcotte@ki.se
Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Karolinska Institute at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts. Lennart Hammarström is co-inventors and authors of a number of patents related to antibody fragments for the management of gastrointestinal infections (Food products comprising probiotic micro-organisms and antibodies, US patent application 20090226418-A1; Compositions comprising antibodies or antibody fragments, US patent application 20110123546-A1; Heavy chain and domain antibodies, US Patent Application 20120141503-A1). Harold Marcotte and Lennart Hammarström are co-inventors and authors of a patent related to the expression of antibody fragments in lactobacilli (Expression of antibody or a fragment thereof in Lactobacillus, US Patent Application 20130323819 A1)]. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GG BA LH HM. Performed the experiments: GG BA YL. Analyzed the data: GG YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH HM. Wrote the paper: GG LH HM.