About the Authors
- Chad W. MacPherson
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* E-mail: cmacpherson@lallemand.com
Affiliation Lallemand Health Solutions Inc., 6100 avenue Royalmount, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Padmaja Shastri
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Affiliation University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada
- Olivier Mathieu
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Affiliation Lallemand Health Solutions Inc., 6100 avenue Royalmount, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Thomas A. Tompkins
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Affiliation Lallemand Health Solutions Inc., 6100 avenue Royalmount, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Pierre Burguière
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Affiliation Lallemand Health Solutions Inc., 6100 avenue Royalmount, Montreal, QC, Canada
Competing Interests
All the authors (CM, OM and PB) declare they are paid employees in the Research and Development sector of Lallemand Health Solutions Inc. PS is a paid consultant to Lallemand Health Solutions Inc. Lallemand Health Solutions Inc. is a privately-owned company that researches, manufactures and sells probiotic microbes business-to-business, not directly to the consumer. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing our data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: CWM TAT PB. Formal analysis: CWM OM. Investigation: CWM OM. Methodology: CWM. Project administration: CWM. Resources: CWM OM. Supervision: TAT. Validation: CWM. Visualization: CWM PS. Writing – original draft: CWM PS. Writing – review & editing: CWM PS OM TAT PB.