About the Authors
- Marina Aspholm
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Contributed equally to this work with: Marina Aspholm, Farzad O Olfat
Current address: Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Affiliations Department of Odontology, Section of Oral Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden , Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Farzad O Olfat
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Contributed equally to this work with: Marina Aspholm, Farzad O Olfat
Current address: Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Ministry of Environment, Singapore
Affiliations Department of Odontology, Section of Oral Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden , The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden
- Jenny Nordén
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Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Berit Sondén
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Affiliations Department of Odontology, Section of Oral Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden , Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Carina Lundberg
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Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Rolf Sjöström
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Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Siiri Altraja
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Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia
- Stefan Odenbreit
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Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Department of Bacteriology, Munich, Germany,
- Rainer Haas
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Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Department of Bacteriology, Munich, Germany,
- Torkel Wadström
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Lars Engstrand
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Affiliation The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden
- Cristina Semino-Mora
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Affiliation Laboratory of Gastrointestinal and Liver Studies, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Hui Liu
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Affiliation Laboratory of Gastrointestinal and Liver Studies, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- André Dubois
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ADubois@usuhs.edu (AD); Thomas.Boren@medchem.umu.se (TB)
Affiliation Laboratory of Gastrointestinal and Liver Studies, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Susann Teneberg
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Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
- Anna Arnqvist
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Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden , Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Thomas Borén
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ADubois@usuhs.edu (AD); Thomas.Boren@medchem.umu.se (TB)
Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Competing Interests
In 2002 TB filed a patent application for the use of SabA as a vaccine candidate, International PCT pending number PCT/SE02/00301/ Helicobacter pylori sialic acid binding adhesin, SabA, and sabA gene.
Author Contributions
MA, FOO, JN, BS, CL, RS, SA, SO, CSM, HL, AD, ST, and AA conceived, designed and performed the experiments. MA, FOO, JN, BS, RS, AD, ST, and TB analyzed the data. SO, RH, AD, ST, and TB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. MA, AD, and TB wrote the paper with the assistance of RH, TW, LE, ST, and AA.