About the Authors
- Poonam Dharmani
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Claudio De Simone
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
- Kris Chadee
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* E-mail: kchadee@ucalgary.ca
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interest. PD was funded by a Canadian Association of Gastroenterology-Axcan Pharma-CIHR Research and Fellowship Award. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PD KC. Performed the experiments: PD. Analyzed the data: PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PD KC CDS. Wrote the paper: PD KC.