About the Authors
- Sara Lindén
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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
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Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Cristina Semino-Mora
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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
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Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Ingemar Carlstedt
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Affiliation Mucosal Biology Group, Department of Cell- and Molecular Biology, BMC, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Thomas Borén
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*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
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*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.