About the Authors

Aziz Bitar

Contributed equally to this work with: Aziz Bitar, Rituparna De

‡ AB and RD are shared first authors on this work. TS and MLH are shared senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Rituparna De

Contributed equally to this work with: Aziz Bitar, Rituparna De

‡ AB and RD are shared first authors on this work. TS and MLH are shared senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Molecular Biology, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Silvia Melgar

Affiliation APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork City, Ireland

Kyaw Min Aung

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Molecular Biology, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Arman Rahman

Affiliation UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Firdausi Qadri

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sun Nyunt Wai

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Tahmina Shirin

marie-louise.hammarstrom@umu.se (MLH); tahmina.shirin14@gmail.com (TS)

‡ AB and RD are shared first authors on this work. TS and MLH are shared senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control & Research (IEDCR), National Influenza Centre (NIC), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Marie-Louise Hammarström

marie-louise.hammarstrom@umu.se (MLH); tahmina.shirin14@gmail.com (TS)

‡ AB and RD are shared first authors on this work. TS and MLH are shared senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MLH TS SNW FQ KA AR SM RD AB. Data curation: MLH TS RD AB. Formal analysis: MLH TS SM RD AB. Funding acquisition: MLH FQ SNW SM. Investigation: MLH TS KA RD AB. Methodology: MLH SNW AR SM. Project administration: MLH TS SNW FQ. Resources: MLH SNW FQ SM. Supervision: MLH TS SNW FQ SM. Validation: MLH TS KA RD AB. Visualization: MLH TS SM RD AB. Writing – original draft: MLH TS RD AB. Writing – review & editing: MLH TS SNW FQ KA AR SM RD AB.