About the Authors
- Kaisa Thorell
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kaisa Thorell, Koji Yahara
Affiliation Microbiology, Tumour and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Koji Yahara
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kaisa Thorell, Koji Yahara
Affiliation Dept. of Bacteriology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- Elvire Berthenet
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Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease group, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
- Daniel J. Lawson
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Affiliation Integrative Epidemiology Unit, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- Jane Mikhail
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Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease group, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
- Ikuko Kato
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Affiliation Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
- Alfonso Mendez
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Affiliation Instituto Politecnico Nacional, ENCB, Mexico City, Mexico
- Cosmeri Rizzato
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Affiliation Dipartimento di Ricerca Traslazionale e Nuove Tecnologie in Medicina e Chirurgia, Universitá di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- María Mercedes Bravo
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Affiliation Grupo de Investigación en Biología del Cáncer, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Bogota, Colombia
- Rumiko Suzuki
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Affiliation Dept. of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
- Yoshio Yamaoka
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Affiliation Dept. of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
- Javier Torres
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Affiliation Unidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, UMAE Pediatria, IMSS, Mexico City, Mexico
- Samuel K. Sheppard
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Affiliation Milner Center for Evolution, Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
- Daniel Falush
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* E-mail: danielfalush@googlemail.com
Affiliation Milner Center for Evolution, Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: KT KY SKS DF. Data curation: EB KT JM. Formal analysis: KT KY EB AM. Investigation: KT KY EB. Methodology: DJL KY DF KT. Project administration: KT JT. Resources: KT IK AM MMB RS YY JT SKS CR. Supervision: SKS DF. Writing – original draft: KT KY EB DF. Writing – review & editing: KT KY EB IK JT DF CR SKS.