About the Authors

Sara Lindén

Affiliations Laboratory of Gastrointestinal and Liver Studies, Digestive Diseases Division, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America , United States Military Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America , Mucosal Diseases Program, Mater Medical Research Institute, South Brisbane, Australia

Jafar Mahdavi

Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Cristina Semino-Mora

Affiliations Laboratory of Gastrointestinal and Liver Studies, Digestive Diseases Division, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America , United States Military Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Cara Olsen

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ingemar Carlstedt

Affiliation Mucosal Biology Group, Department of Cell- and Molecular Biology, BMC, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Thomas Borén

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Thomas.Boren@medchem.umu.se (TB); ADubois@usuhs.edu (AD)

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Andre Dubois

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Thomas.Boren@medchem.umu.se (TB); ADubois@usuhs.edu (AD)

Affiliations Laboratory of Gastrointestinal and Liver Studies, Digestive Diseases Division, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America , United States Military Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SL made initial observations and together with JM performed main experiments and analyzed data. CSM performed IHC and determined ABO blood group and Se-phenotypes. CO performed statistical analyzes. SL, IC, TB, and AD wrote the manuscript. All authors discussed the results and commented on the manuscript.