About the Authors
- Ruoxing Sun
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Affiliation Division of Periodontology, Diagnostic Sciences and Dental Hygiene, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Weerayuth Kittichotirat
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Research Group, Pilot Plant, Development and Training Institute, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkhuntien, Bangkok, Thailand
- Justin Wang
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Affiliation Division of Periodontology, Diagnostic Sciences and Dental Hygiene, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Minnie Jan
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Affiliation Division of Periodontology, Diagnostic Sciences and Dental Hygiene, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Weizhen Chen
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Affiliation Division of Periodontology, Diagnostic Sciences and Dental Hygiene, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Sirkka Asikainen
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Affiliation Department of Oral Microbiology, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
- Roger Bumgarner
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Casey Chen
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* E-mail: ccchen@usc.edu
Affiliation Division of Periodontology, Diagnostic Sciences and Dental Hygiene, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SA CC RB WK. Performed the experiments: RS WC JW MJ. Analyzed the data: RS SA WK JW MJ WC CC RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC SA RB WK. Wrote the paper: SA WK CC RB.