About the Authors
- Emily Xie
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Affiliation Global Infectious Disease Research Center and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Abhiroop Kotha
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Affiliation Global Infectious Disease Research Center and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Tracy Biaco
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Affiliation Global Infectious Disease Research Center and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Nikita Sedani
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Affiliation Global Infectious Disease Research Center and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Jonathan Zou
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Affiliation Global Infectious Disease Research Center and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Phillip Stashenko
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Affiliations Global Infectious Disease Research Center and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Margaret J. Duncan
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Antonio Campos-Neto
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Affiliations Global Infectious Disease Research Center and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Mark J. Cayabyab
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* E-mail: mcayabyab@forsyth.org
Affiliations Global Infectious Disease Research Center and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Forsyth Institute, 245 First Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have a patent pending relating to recombinant S. mitis. U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 13/624,146, Filed: September 21, 2012, Title: A Vaccine and Therapeutic Delivery System, Inventors: Antonio Campos-Neto, Margaret Duncan and Mark Cayabyab. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MC AC MD PS. Performed the experiments: EX AK TB NS JZ MC. Analyzed the data: EX AK TB NS JZ MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD AC MC. Wrote the paper: EX MC.