About the Authors

Kelly K. Baker

kelly-k-baker@uiowa.edu

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Ciara E. O’Reilly

Affiliation Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Myron M. Levine

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

Karen L. Kotloff

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

James P. Nataro

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Tracy L. Ayers

Affiliation Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Tamer H. Farag

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Dilruba Nasrin

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

William C. Blackwelder

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

Yukun Wu

Affiliations Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Emergent BioSolutions, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Pedro L. Alonso

Affiliations Centre de Recerca en Salut Internacional de Barcelona, Hospital Clinic (CRESIB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, and Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Robert F. Breiman

Affiliations US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nairobi, Kenya, Emory Global Health Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Richard Omore

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KEMRI/CDC), Kisumu, Kenya

Abu S. G. Faruque

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sumon Kumar Das

Affiliations International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Shahnawaz Ahmed

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Debasish Saha

Affiliation Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), Fajara, The Gambia

Samba O. Sow

Affiliation Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins, Bamako, Mali

Dipika Sur

Affiliations National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India, India Public Health Association and PATH India Office, New Delhi, India

Anita K. M. Zaidi

Affiliations Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Fahreen Quadri

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Eric D. Mintz

Affiliation Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MML KLK JPN KKB CEO EDM. Analyzed the data: KKB CEO TLA EDM. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: KKB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: KKB CEO TLA EDM. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: KKB CEO MML KLK JPN TLA THF DN WCB YW PLA RFB RO ASGF SKD SA DSa SOS DSu AKMZ FQ EDM. Supervised enrollment of patients, implementation of the study protocol, and data acquisition: PLA RFB RO ASGF SKD SA DSa SOS DSu AKMZ FQ. Epidemiology Study Coordinators: THF DN. Provided biostatistical support for the study: TLA WCB YW. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.