An attenuated Shigella mutant lacking the RNA-binding protein Hfq provides cross-protection against Shigella strains of broad serotype

• Jiro Mitobe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jmitobe@nih.go.jp

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ritam Sinha,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Beliaghata, Kolkata, India

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• Soma Mitra,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Bacteriology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Beliaghata, Kolkata, India

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• Dhrubajyoti Nag,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Beliaghata, Kolkata, India

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• Noriko Saito,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Ken Shimuta,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Nobuo Koizumi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hemanta Koley

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Beliaghata, Kolkata, India

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