About the Authors

K. M. Shahunja

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Centre for Nutrition and Food Security (CNFS), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Daniel T. Leung

Current address: Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

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

Tahmeed Ahmed

Affiliation Centre for Nutrition and Food Security (CNFS), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Pradip Kumar Bardhan

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

Dilruba Ahmed

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

Firdausi Qadri

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

Edward T. Ryan

Contributed equally to this work with: Edward T. Ryan, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti

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

Mohammod Jobayer Chisti

Contributed equally to this work with: Edward T. Ryan, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti

chisti@icddrb.org

Affiliations Centre for Nutrition and Food Security (CNFS), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dhaka Hospital, 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: KMS DTL MJC ETR. Performed the experiments: KMS DTL. Analyzed the data: KMS DTL MJC ETR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KMS DTL. Wrote the paper: KMS DTL TA PKB DA FQ ETR MJC. Obtained permission from the IRB of the centre: KMS DTL MJC.