Individuals with Le(a+b−) Blood Group Have Increased Susceptibility to Symptomatic Vibrio cholerae O1 Infection

Mohammad Arifuzzaman; Tanvir Ahmed; Mohammad Arif Rahman; Fahima Chowdhury; Rasheduzzaman Rashu; Ashraful I. Khan; Regina C. LaRocque; Jason B. Harris; Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan; Edward T. Ryan; Stephen B. Calderwood; Firdausi Qadri

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001413

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Individuals with Le(a+b−) Blood Group Have Increased Susceptibility to Symptomatic Vibrio cholerae O1 Infection

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
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Tanvir Ahmed,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* E-mail: fqadri@icddrb.org

Affiliation Centre for Vaccine Sciences, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Individuals with Le(a+b−) Blood Group Have Increased Susceptibility to Symptomatic Vibrio cholerae O1 Infection

Mohammad Arifuzzaman,
Tanvir Ahmed,
Mohammad Arif Rahman,
Fahima Chowdhury,
Rasheduzzaman Rashu,
Ashraful I. Khan,
Regina C. LaRocque,
Jason B. Harris,
Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan,
Edward T. Ryan

Published: December 27, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001413

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