About the Authors
- Rocio Martin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Rocio Martin, Hiroshi Makino
* E-mail: rocio.martin@danone.com
Affiliation Nutricia Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Hiroshi Makino
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Contributed equally to this work with: Rocio Martin, Hiroshi Makino
Affiliation Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Aysun Cetinyurek Yavuz
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Affiliation Nutricia Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Kaouther Ben-Amor
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Affiliation Nutricia Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Mieke Roelofs
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Affiliation Nutricia Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Eiji Ishikawa
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Affiliation Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Hiroyuki Kubota
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Affiliation Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Sophie Swinkels
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Affiliation Nutricia Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Takafumi Sakai
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Affiliation Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Kenji Oishi
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Affiliation Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Akira Kushiro
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Affiliation Yakult Central Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Jan Knol
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Affiliations Nutricia Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Microbiology Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
Nutricia Research and Yakult funded the study. RM, KBA, MR, SS, ACY, JK are paid by Nutricia Research, whereas HM, HK, TS, EI, KO, AK are paid by Yakult. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RM HM KBA MR EI SS ACY KO AK JK. Performed the experiments: RM HM EI HK TS ACY KO AK. Analyzed the data: RM HM ACY AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EI HK ACY. Wrote the paper: RM HM KBA ACY KO JK.