About the Authors

Mohammad Arifuzzaman

Affiliations Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tanvir Ahmed

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Arif Rahman

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Fahima Chowdhury

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rasheduzzaman Rashu

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Ashraful I. Khan

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Regina C. LaRocque

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jason B. Harris

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Edward T. Ryan

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Stephen B. Calderwood

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen B. Calderwood, Firdausi Qadri

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Firdausi Qadri

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen B. Calderwood, Firdausi Qadri

fqadri@icddrb.org

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FQ MA TA TRB JBH. Performed the experiments: MA MAR RR. Analyzed the data: MA MAR TA TRB FC AIK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SBC ETR RCL FC. Wrote the paper: MA MAR ETR FQ SBC.