About the Authors
- Qingwei Luo
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Firdausi Qadri
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Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Rita Kansal
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- David A. Rasko
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Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Alaullah Sheikh
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Affiliation Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- James M. Fleckenstein
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* E-mail: jflecken@wustl.edu
Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JMF FQ DAR QL. Performed the experiments: QL RK AS. Analyzed the data: QL DAR JF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FQ DAR. Wrote the paper: QL JF DAR.